In Dubious Battle
(2016)
Directed by James
Franco this film based on the novel of the same name stars it's
director as well as Nat Wolff, Vincent D'Onofrio, Selena Gomez and
Robert Duvall. In 1933 a young man joins a group of activists seeking
to insight underpaid fruit pickers to strike.
Inevitably this is not
John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940) but it is still a pretty
decent film set in the depression era. I like that the plot shows the
ugly, uncaring side of the agitators but fails to humanise those on
the other side at all. There is a great cast that is a little under
used and the plot not as carefully handed as it could be but this is
still a decent watch.
3/5
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