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Directed by | Barbara Kopple Co-directors: Cathy Caplan Thomas Haneke Lawrence Silk |
Produced by | Arthur Cohn Barbara Kopple[1] |
Cinematography | Kevin Keating Hart Perry Mathieu Roberts Mark T. Peterson Peter Gilbert |
Edited by | Cathy Caplan Thomas Haneke Lawrence Silk |
Music by | Michael Small |
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Distributed by | Prestige Films |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Countries | United States United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | $500,000 (estimated) |
Box office | $269,823 (US) |
American Dream is a 1990 British-American cinéma vérité documentary film directed by Barbara Kopple and co-directed by Cathy Caplan, Thomas Haneke, and Lawrence Silk.
The film recounts the unsuccessful 1985–86 Hormel strike in the heartland of the United States against the Hormel Foods corporation.