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Plot

Angel City plays like a Grapes of Wrath updated to the 1980s. Ralph Waite plays a West Virginia farmer who, faced with the prospect of starving to death on his unproductive land, packs up his family and moves to the so-called Promised Land of Florida. There he goes to work on what is euphemistically called a collective farm. But soon he finds himself surrounded in squalor and misery, working back-breaking hours for slave-labor wages. Paul Winfield, Jennifer Warren and Mitchell Ryan co-star in this made for TV movie, which debuted November 12, 1980.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Drama
Run Time:
90min.
Director(s):
Philip Leacock
Themes:
Down on Their Luck
Tone:
Austere,Bleak,Downbeat,Gritty
Keywords:
corruption,cross-cultural-relations,escape,labor-camp,migrant-worker,poverty,slavery,survivor,worker