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A musical look at the lives and struggles of people in the small fictional town called Greendale. full summary | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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(Credited cast) | Sarah White | ... | Sun Green |
| Eric Johnson | ... | Jed Green / Devil |
| Ben Keith | ... | Grandpa Green |
| Erik Markegard | ... | Earth Brown |
| Elizabeth Keith | ... | Grandma Green |
| Pegi Young | ... | Edith Green |
| James Mazzeo | ... | Earl Green |
| Paul Supplee | ... | Officer Carmichael |
| Sydney Stephan | ... | Widow |
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| Adam Donkin | ... | Imitator (as Echobrain) |
| Dylan Donkin | ... | Imitator (as Echobrain) |
| Brian Sagrafena | ... | Imitator (as Echobrain) |
| Neil Young | ... | Wayne Newton (as Bernard Shakey) |
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Neil Young's companion film to his concept album of the same name is rendered in a grainy color 8mm silent film -- accompanied by the music of the album. The hook is that while the cast acts out the events of the songs, they lip sync to Young's vocals. The effect is at once strange, startling and somewhat boring. The production values are quite low, but the fidelity in image and setting is interestingly contrasted within the editorial content of the film. The story involves a family that is riven by violence and the gathering forces of media and government that exploit it. Young uses this situation and the bucolic town of "Greendale" to make an argument about the evolution of American life, the march of conservative politics and most particularly, the plight of the environment. After an hour of watching what mostly feels like Young's home movies, bumbling and blurry, he violently cuts to the razor sharp video images of the media descending upon the town. It's easy to dismiss this film as cheaply made and lazily conceived. But the film closes with the image of a newly-politicized young couple driving to Alaska to "save the Caribou" -- with the Devil hitching a ride. Young may be suggesting that in the end the terrible forces that rain down on "Greendale" ascended from there as well.