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The Milagro Beanfield War

1988

Robert Redford

Sônia Braga, Rubén Blades, Chick Vennera, John Heard ...

6.2

1,449

Drama In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this will result in the eventual displacement of the local Hispanic farmers, they cannot arouse much opposition because of the short term opportunities offered by construction jobs. But when Joe Mondragon illegally diverts water to irrigate his ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"An ensemble comedy-drama with a uniformly excellent cast. Yet the movie coalesces around 74-year-old Carlos Riquelme (...) [he is] the movie's magic"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"The film is very big on sunsets and sunrises. It also has a touristy appreciation for all manner of things folkloric. What it doesn't have is dramatic coherence or backbone. Even the villains are spineless."	NEU
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"Visually exquisite and utterly charming without being soppy (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The result is a wonderful fable, but the problem is, some of the people in the story know it’s a fable and others do not (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Variety	"A charming, fanciful little fable built around weighty issues"	POS

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