Down and Out in America
A recession in the mid-1980s affects Minnesota farm workers, unemployed urban workers and the newly homeless in Los Angeles and New York.
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"Definitely one of those times that one is critical of a film only because it is too brief on its enormously important subjects and the people. Down and Out in America is a searing, heart-smashing story of how it was not "a Morning in America" but a long dark series of nights where things were partly Grapes of Wrath all over again (farmers having to contend with money-grubbing owners taking everything to cheaper overseas lands), and partly still hell for anyone who got stuck in the endless loop of Welfare. What Lee Grant does so impactfully is to show what these people went through, ..."
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Produced by HBO, this was the first cable program to win an Academy Award.
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A recession in the mid-1980s affects Minnesota farm workers, unemployed urban workers and the newly homeless in Los Angeles and New York.