American Dream (1990)
The award-winning film of American lives, American courage, and the...
98 min
When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local labor union decides to go on strike and fight for a wage they believe is fair. But as the work stoppage drags on and the strikers face losing everything, friends become enemies, families are divided and the very future of this typical mid American town is threatened.
- Release date
- October 6, 1990
- Country of origin
- United States, United Kingdom
- Box office
- $269,823
Trailer
Cast
- Lewie Anderson as Self - Chief Negotiator
- R.J. Bergstrom as Self
- Ron Bergstrom as Self
- Wayne Goodnature as Self
- Jim Guyette as Self - President Local Union P-9
- Jesse Jackson as Self
- Richard Knowlton as Self - President Hormel & CO.
- Juan Munoz
- Charles Nyberg as Self - Chief Counsel - Hormel & CO.
Crew
- Dan Rather · Archive footage
- Barbara Kopple · Director
- Arthur Cohn · Producer
- Barbara Kopple · Producer
- Michael Small · Composer
- Peter Gilbert · Cinematographer
- Kevin Keating · Cinematographer
- Hart Perry · Cinematographer
- Mark Petersson · Cinematographer
- Cathy Caplan · Editor
- Thomas Haneke · Editor
- Lawrence Silk · Editor
- Mark Stuart Lane · Production designer