MATEWAN

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• Release Year: 1987
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: A small town in the 1920's West Virginia explodes when unionist miners clash with the owners of a tyrannical coal company in this critically acclaimed film from writer/producer John Sayles. Earnest labor leader Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper) arrives in Matewan to try and better the lives of the men and women of this 'company town' through unionization. But in his efforts to organize the workers of the Stone Mountain Coal Company, he ignites a powderkeg or racial hostility, corruption and betrayal - and touches off one of the most violent incidents in the history of the Coal Wars of 1920-21. Mary McDonnell (Independence Day), David Strathhairn (The Firm), and James Earl Jones (Clear and Present Danger), also star in the film that Leonard Maltin calls 'compelling and compassionate... John Sayles makes every note ring true.' ;
• Cast: Chris Cooper, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham, David Strathairn, Ken Jenkins, Kevin Tighe, Gordon Clapp, Bob Gunton, Jace Alexander, Joe Grifasi, Nancy Mette, Jo Henderson, Josh Mostel, Gary McCleery, Maggie Renzi, Tom Wright, Michael B. Preston, Thomas A. Carlin, Jenni Cline, Michael Mantell, J.K. Kent Lilly, Ida Williams, James Kizer, Ronnie Stapleton, Davide Ferrario, Frank Payne Jr., John Sayles, Hazel Dickens, Charles Haywood, Neale Clark, Mitch Scott, Hazel Pearl, Michael Frasher, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Fred Decker, Bill Morris, Delmas Lawhorn, William Dean, P. Michael Munsey, Thomas Hal Phillips, Stephen C. Hall, Percy Fruit, Thomas Poore, Tara Williams, Gerald Milnes, Mason Daring, Jim Costa, Phil Wiggins, James Earl Jones, Jim Damron, Jason Jenkins, Scott A. Martin, Ric Siler, Jesse Womack
• Director: John Sayles
• Runtime: 2:15
• Company: PDX, Seville
• Media Format: Movie