Movie

American Dream

100%Critics16 reviews88%Audience19 reviews

8.878average critics score, out of 1019901h 40mPG-13

Documentary

This acclaimed documentary focuses on a mid-1980s workers' strike at a Hormel meatpacking plant in Minnesota. After employees have both their wages and benefits cut, the local union endorses a strike, but complications arise when the national branch of the union doesn't follow suit. This divide in viewpoints has unexpected consequences for organized labor in the United States, and makes for intriguing depictions of workers' rights, strikes and union negotiations.

Directed by:

Barbara Kopple