Volume 39, Number 8 · April 23, 1992
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
By Murray Kempton
American Dream
a film directed by Barbara Kopple. distributed by Prestige/Miramax
American Dream is the flower the documentary film maker Barbara Kopple has laid upon the grave of the strike lost at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota, in 1986. It has finally opened in New York, a year after being awarded an Oscar, and will remain here for the uncertain duration of the Angelika Film Center's patience with empty seats. Those who bother with American Dream will live as close as we have much chance to get these days to the initial exhilarations, the middle torments, and the final disaster of people who were too simple to know that to lift up your head and fight for your dignity is to get your teeth knocked in.
Review, 684 words
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