Matewan
PG-13 · 1987 ‧ Western/Drama ‧ 2h 12m
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Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper), a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson (James Earl Jones) and a sympathetic mayor...
Release date: August 28, 1987 (USA)
Director: John Sayles
Cinematography: Haskell Wexler
Distributed by: Cinecom
Box office: under $2 million (US)
Music by: Mason Daring
The film dramatizes the events of the Battle of Matewan, a coal miners' strike in 1920 in Matewan, a small town in the hills of West Virginia.
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A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed.
Oct 28, 2019 · Written and directed by John Sayles, this wrenching historical drama recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the local ...
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Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan ...
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Matewan is a superb film, good acting, excellently shot, and a rivetting story. The ending is violent, but that too is well done. The film is about a coal ...
The Battle of Matewan (also known as the Matewan Massacre) was a shootout in the town of Matewan in Mingo County and the Pocahontas Coalfield mining ...
Duration: 1:47
Posted: Dec 28, 2019
Posted: Dec 28, 2019
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Written and directed by John Sayles, this wrenching historical drama recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the local miners' struggle to ...