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American Dream is a american film of genre Documentary directed by Barbara Kopple released in USA on 28 september 1990

American Dream (1990)

American Dream
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Released in USA 28 september 1990
Length 1h40
Directed by
OriginUSA
Rating77% 3.885523.885523.885523.885523.88552

American Dream is a 1990 cinéma vérité documentary film directed by Barbara Kopple and co-directed by Cathy Caplan, Thomas Haneke, and Lawrence Silk.

The film recounts an unsuccessful strike in the heartland of America against the Hormel Foods corporation.

Synopsis

The film is centered on unionized meatpacking workers at Hormel Foods in Austin, Minnesota between 1985 and 1986. Hormel had cut the hourly wage from $10.69 to $8.25 and cut benefits by 30 percent despite posting a net profit of $30 million. The local union (P-9) opposed the cut, but the national union, the United Food and Commercial Workers, disagreed with their strategy.

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