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5 May 2000 (USA) morePlot:
A picturesque Pacific Northwest community raising its wheat and children in the midst of a nation reeling... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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4 wins moreUser Comments:
true to the time and place more (37 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Peter Coyote | ... | Martin Conlon | |
| Karen Allen | ... | Bessie Emery | |
| Robert Burke | ... | Helmut Brink | |
| Amber Willenborg | ... | Brigitta Brink | |
| Jock MacDonald | ... | Nicholas Emery | |
| Eric Dane | ... | Tom Emery | |
| Brian Skala | ... | Nathan Emery | |
| Casey Cowan | ... | Samuel Emery | |
| Tony Lincoln | ... | Reverend Simms | |
| Patrick Treadway | ... | Frederick Treadway | |
| Ellen Travolta | ... | Agnes | |
| Jack Bannon | ... | Marcus | |
| Elwon Bakly | ... | Ben Emery | |
| Joey Travolta | ... | Charlie Cohn | |
| Paul Hostetler | ... | Old Helmut Brink |
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Rated PG for some mild violence and brief language.Parents Guide:
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105 minCountry:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Spokane basketball player #2 is Scott McQuilken, actual Athletic Director at Whitworth College. McQuilken later made his stage debut as Egeus in the school's fall 2003 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. moreGoofs:
Anachronisms: When we see the envelope Mr. Conlon is mailing, it shows the 2-letter state abbreviations for Washington and Massachusetts. These weren't adopted until 1963, when zip codes were introduced. More likely, the abbreviations would have been Wash. and Mass. moreQuotes:
[last lines][quoted from a German opera retold during the story]
Martin Conlon: Together we shall fly.
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This was a video store closeout, and a remarkable find. The best part first. Having had relatives and in-laws who lived there in the time, this looks and feels real. The horse drawn harvester, to start with. The blue sky and tufts of clouds, the golden hills and pines - not fake at all - it's the northern Palouse in early fall. The attitudes of the people are just what I'd expect. Suspicious of anything new or foreign - Spokane was the IWW headquarters just prior to this period, and dangerous radicals such as Joe Hill(strom) wandered all through the basin making trouble for the established citizenry. WWI had a huge effect on Northwest labor history, and the tension between loyalty and freethinking was strong. Yet there was also the great thirst for culture, and a pre-mass media naivete, in these places - a yearning for art perhaps inspired by living in the midst of great beauty. Finally, all those stark white houses, churches and schoolhouse sitting forlornly out in the wide open. The movie gets ALL of this right.
Sadly, there isn't much of a story to complement the pictures. The problem with small town life is that it was boring, and it's hard to find a believable story with a lot of drama that fits. Focused on the relationships only, this might have been something like A River Runs Through It or Napoleon Dynamite (both of which play against similar scenic backdrops). Focused on the sports story, perhaps Hoosiers. Focused on outsiders fitting in, perhaps Days of Heaven. But muddled all together, it comes out like a string of TV episodes, like Little House on the Prairie. Very melodramatic, with all the music swells and dramatic incidents that usually precede a commercial.