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Matewan (1987) | User Rating
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Release Date
Aug 28, 1987 (USA)
DVD Release Date
• R1: Nov 27, 2001
Budget $4,000,000
MPAA Rating
PG13
Running Time
2 hours, 12 minutes
Country USA
Studio Cinecom Pictures
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• Matewan
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Genre: Drama, Political, Period Piece, Betrayal, Murder, Society, True Story
Plot: The year is 1920, the setting Matewan, West Virginia, where the town's coal miners labor under miserable, unhealthy conditions. Enter Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper), a rebellious union leader who wants to organize the West Virginian miners, as well as the Italians and blacks brought in as workers. Based on a real massacre in Matewan that started the 1920-1921 Coal War between miners and coal company thugs, MATEWAN subverts the convention of Westerns like HIGH NOON. Kenehan is not the drifter who will save the miners with his skill at a six-shooter; rather, he is a pacifist whose message of non-violent resistance the miners have difficulty accepting. The story is divided into four parts, alternating between times when Kenehan prevails and times when the instinct for revenge against the coal company wins out. The first large-scale historical epic made by director John Sayles (who once worked in the Meat Packer's Union), MATEWAN is a subtle strike against the anti-union climate of the 1980s and a moving portrait of the difficulties of collective action.
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| Written by |
John Sayles
The Howling, Piranha, The Clan of the Cave Bear |
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| Cast |
Chris Cooper
American Beauty, The Patriot, The Bourne Identity |
 | James Earl Jones
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, Star Wars, Dr. Strangelove |
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 | Will Oldham
Junebug, Thousand Pieces of Gold, Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure | | Gordon Clapp
Rules of Engagement, Moonlight Mile, Eight Men Out | |
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| Music By |
Mason Daring
Lone Star, The Opposite of Sex, Where the Heart Is |
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