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The Milagro Beanfield War is a 1988 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Redford, based on a novel by John Nichols. The movie features an ensemble cast including Ruben Blades, Richard Bradford, Sônia Braga, Julie Carmen, James Gammon, Melanie Griffith, John Heard, Carlos Riquelme, Daniel Stern, Chick Vennera, and Christopher Walken.
Mar 18, 1988 · A comedy drama fantasy film directed by Robert Redford and starring Rubén Blades, Richard Bradford, Sonia Braga and others. It tells the story of a water rights war between farmers and developers in a small New Mexico town.
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- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Robert Redford
- 1988-03-18
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.
- (38)
- Robert Redford
- R
- 22
Robert Redford’s “The Milagro Beanfield War” opens with Mondragon’s small act of rebellion and uses it to explore the dilemma of many regional cultures in the United States - pockets of language, custom and heritage that are threatened with extinction by developers who want to turn everything into one homogeneous mall/hotel/resort.
In the tiny town of Milagro, New Mexico, where the local water is a premium resource, shady developer Ladd Devine (Richard Bradford) has conceived a glitzy resort that will ultimately siphon off...
- (33)
- Robert Redford
- R
- Sonia Braga
R. Robert Redford directs this absolutely delightful comedy of everyday people caught up in extraordinary circumstances. When a Chicano handyman from the Milagr...
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A movie about a water-rights conflict between farmers and developers in a New Mexico town. Joe Mondragon illegally diverts water to irrigate his bean field, sparking a confrontation with the authorities and the resort project.
