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In the tiny town of Milagro, New Mexico, where the local water is a premium resource, shady developer Ladd Devine has conceived a glitzy resort that will ultimately siphon off all the water from the neighboring crop-fields. When handyman and farmer Joe Mondragon accidentally breaks a water valve reserved for major companies, he inadvertently ...
Powered by JustWatch. One fine morning Joe Mondragon gets mad and kicks at the gate on the irrigation ditch that runs past his dry field. Water flows into it, and he decides, just like that, to grow some beans in his field. Everybody in town knows the water belongs to a big land development corporation.
Joe Mondragon, a ne'er-do-well town resident, sets off the conflict that drives the plot by illegally irrigating his bean field. The forces supporting Ladd Devine's project attempt to put a stop to Mondragon's actions without inflaming tensions of the townspeople, which could derail the development.
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Local resident Joe Mondragon is eager for work at the construction site but faces rejection, despite his willingness to take on any task. He confides in an elder neighbor about his concerns over the drought. Desperate for water, Mondragon taps into an irrigation canal, unaware of the legal consequences.
- $22 million
- Dave Grusin
- March 18, 1988 (United States)
- Moctesuma Esparza, Gary Hendler, Charles Mulvehill, Robert Redford
The Milagro Beanfield War opens with a paragraph-long summary of the motives that various Milagro townspeople attribute to Joe Mondragón in illegally irrigating his tiny, dried-up beanfield. The brief passage introduces a few of the novel’s major characters, as well as indirectly revealing much about the town’s built-up tensions and the ...
When handyman and farmer Joe Mondragon (Chick Vennera) accidentally breaks a water valve reserved for major companies, he inadvertently sets off a small-scale water-rights war between the...
- (33)
- Comedy, Drama
- R
Jan 1, 1974 · John Nichols. 4.09. 10,477 ratings528 reviews. Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel.
