The Milagro Beanfield War
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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1988
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The accidental breakdown of an irrigation valve launches a hot confrontation between the mainly Latino farmers in a tiny New Mexico town and the real estate developers and politicians determined to acquire their land for a golf resort.
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Runtime:
117 min
Release date:
18 Mar 1988
Country:
US
Languages:
Spanish, English
Budget:
$22,000,000
Revenue:
$14,000,000
Awards:
Won 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 2 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Redford and company have put a quirky twist on the material, investing it with a quasi-mystical aspect as well as some raw comedy.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
7 Nov 2007
rotten:
Fairly choked with good intentions, whimsy, touches of fantasy, and cardboard liberal stereotypes.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
7 Nov 2007
rotten:
Redford's film sustains a slow mood of simpatico amiability and photographs the landscape with moony or golden washes that are perhaps hard to dislike, but is slain by its adherence to an outdated populist mythology.
– Wally Hammond,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
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.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
Corny, you bet. But that's to be admired in an old war horse on the last frontier.
– Rita Kempley,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000