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Writer (WGA):
Peter Silverman (written by)
Release Date:
4 June 2000 (USA) more
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It's Her Turn To Fight Back.
Plot:
A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike. | add synopsis
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Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations more
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West Wing, Sopranos Are Top Emmy Nominees
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 20 July 2000)
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You must be kidding, right? more (14 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Holly Hunter | ... | Ruby Kincaid |
 | Stellan Skarsgård | ... | Warren Jakopovich |
 | Ted Levine | ... | Silas Kincaid |
 | Wayne Robson | ... | Tug Jones |
| Alex House | ... | Buddy Kincaid |
| Charlotte Arnold | ... | Lucinda Kincaid |
| Ker Wells | ... | Little Lee |
 | Jennifer Irwin | ... | Mary Ball |
 | Rufus Crawford | ... | Bill Worthington |
| Cliff Saunders | ... | Lawrence Perkins |
| Deborah Pollitt | ... | Ora Perkins |
 | Tim Burd | ... | Dillard Ball (as Timothy Burd) |
| Tom Harvey | ... | Jerry Selvey |
| Reginald Doresa | ... | Bronce Breckenridge |
| Helen Hughes | ... | Aunt Melva Jones |
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Harlan County (USA) (working title)
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104 min
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Featured in The 52nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2000) (TV) more
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I have spent my entire life in Harlan County, Kentucky. Growing up, working and now raising my own children here. To those of you who believe this movie has anything real to teach you about my home, I can tell you it has only a minimal similarity to reality. It is based on a nearly thirty-year-old Oscar-winning film, Harlan County USA, which for a documentary about the 1970s-era strike at Eastover Mining Company was one of the most complete works of fiction ever created. This admittedly fictionalized version of that original fiction doesn't look like Harlan County, sound like Harlan County, or even remotely evoke Harlan County, which at least the documentary did, even though most of its details were way out of whack. Although stereotypes abound, I can recommend this movie as a competent piece of fiction and a satisfying, though somewhat overwrought, drama. In short, typical made-for-TV fodder. But don't for one minute think it resembles real people or real life in Harlan County, Kentucky in any useful way. That story doesn't exist yet in the minds of producers anywhere. Appalachia and the entertainment industry have yet to understand one another.