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Movie Details
Matewan (1987)
 Filmogs Rating:   (76.9%)
Director(s): John Sayles
Writing: John Sayles
Links: IMDb Page, Wikipedia Page
Genre: Drama, History
Runtime: 2 Hours, 12 Minutes
Language: English
Main Cast: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham, David Strathairn, Ken Jenkins, Gordon Clapp, Kevin Tighe
Plot/Outline: Mingo County, West Virginia, 1920. Coal miners, struggling to form a union, are up against company operators and gun thugs; Black and Italian miners, brought in by the company to break the strike, are caught between the two forces. Union activist and ex-Wobbly Joe Kenehan, sent to help organize the union, determines to bring the local, Black, and Italian groups together. Drawn from an actual incident; the characters of Sid Hatfield, Cabell Testerman, C. E. Lively, and Few Clothes Johnson were based on real people.
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