Country

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Summary: Outstanding Disney film
Review: Along with "Night Crossing," "Tex" and "Never Cry Wolf," "Country" is one of the early Disney serious attempts at broadening their motion pictures beyond the slapstick comedies of the '70's, as well as broadening their audience to anything other than kids bored during the summer. Several of these "in-between" films were serious flops (but not all without things to admire), including "Something Wicked This Way Comes," "The Black Hole," and "Trenchcoat." Most of these films filled the gap between Disney's Ron Miller era and the Michael Eisner era--set in motion by the previous studio heads, and completed under the current studio heads. Of course, Eisner and Co. weren't particularly interested in these films, as they had little to do with them. Still they were released, and some found admiring critics, if not droves of ticketbuyers. "Country" is a beautifully shot, written, and acted film that honestly deals with the pain of family farming under the dreadful reagun administration. Sincerity is the key, here. No Hollywood hokum. And one of the BEST tornado sequences in motion picture history.

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Summary: Most realistic film ever made.
Review: I am a farmer and have been watching this film since it was released. I was very young when it was released and have been impressed ever since. I have studied it and every aspect is as it would be in every day farm life. I have been to where it was filmed and everything is as it was on the film. This film gives wonderful insight to the tremendous destruction that the Liberal spending Carter administration put on our country and our conservative, value minded farms. When Reagan had to put things back in order, farmers were affected. This film changed farming forever when it made aware of what was going on at that time. I give all praises to all who worked on this film. Thank you and I recommend it to everyone.

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Summary: Jessica Lange's vision is brought to the screen!
Review: Screen Star Jessica Lange was offered the role as a farmers wife in "The River", but she didn't feel it portrayed the farmers plight well enough, so she co-produced this film and starred in it. She gives a warming and heart felt performance as Ivy, a woman who is a fighter for her family and a sacrificing mother before she's a "farmer's wife". Sam Shepard portrays Gil as a weak man who can not face the troubles of his family until he realizes that he needs them more then they need him. This is one of the few films to portray the farmers plight with such truthfulness that it breaks your heart at every turn to know that this actually went on and is still going on.
1984 Academy Award Nomination:
BEST ACTRESS-JESSICA LANGE