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![]() Sunshine State
2002
![]() Lone Star
1996
![]() Men with Guns
1997
![]() Return of the Secaucus Seven
1980
![]() City of Hope
1991
![]() Eight Men Out
1988
![]() Passion Fish
1992
![]() Silver City
2004
![]() Lianna
1983
![]() The Brother from Another Planet
1984
![]() Limbo
1999
![]() Casa de los Babys
2003
Sunshine State(Movie), Lone Star(Movie), Men with Guns(Movie), Return of the Secaucus Seven(Movie), City of Hope(Movie), Eight Men Out(Movie), Passion Fish(Movie), Silver City(Movie), Lianna(Movie), The Brother from Another Planet(Movie), Limbo(Movie), Casa de los Babys(Movie)
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2-minute review: not black and white, but nevertheless starkly filmed, this is a leisurely-paced "fight the power!" film based on a true event. set in the early 1920s in the mountains of west virginia, the film loosely stitches together various tensions among the townspeople of matewan, wv in the lead-up to a gunfight between pro-union coal miners and the stone mountain coal company's "hired gun thugs". like the pinkertons before them, the baldwin–felts detective agency was those days not doing much detecting... the film chronicles from the start of the mine-workers' strike, to people of... read
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