

American Dream
The award-winning film of American lives, American courage, and the...
When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local labor union decides to go on strike and fight for a wage they believe is fair. But as the work stoppage drags on and the strikers face losing everything, friends become enemies, families are divided and the very future of this typical mid American town is threatened.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $269.8K
- Language
- English
- strike
- iowa
- labor
- labor strike
- labor union
- woman director
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- PremierePG-13New York Film Festival6 Oct 1990
- PhysicalPG-13VHS6 Dec 1993
- PhysicalPG-13DVD21 Aug 2009
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American Dream was released on 6 October 1990.
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