Film

Matewan (1987)

• PG-13
• 28. august 1987
• 2 t 12 min

• Drama
• History

Oversikt

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.

Regissør

John Sayles

Manusforfattere

John Sayles

I hovedrollene

Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell