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Location: Kansas City, MO, United States
    Post dates are when I watched, parenthetical dates are the year of US release (aka Oscar eligibility).

12/15/2003

Country (1984)

This subject (farmers facing repossession) was tackled much more effectively in "The River" in the same year. Shepard's transition from loving family man to abusive drunk is too whip-fast -- the whole thing comes off as manipulative rather than earning true emotion.

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