Incredible film. One of the few times you can say a film/director is underrated (at least on reddit).
Trivia: although the ending VO states that C.E. Lively shot Sid Hatfield the year after the movie takes place, in actuality Lively shot Hatfield’s deputy, Ed Chambers, not Hatfield.
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##Matewan (1987) PG-13
It takes more than guns to kill a man.
>>!Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, “Matewan” celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named “Few Clothes” Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan’s vested interests so that justice and workers’ rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.!<
Drama | History
Director: John Sayles
Actors: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 73% with 104 votes
Runtime: 2:12
[TMDB](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/24276)
Incredible film. One of the few times you can say a film/director is underrated (at least on reddit).
Trivia: although the ending VO states that C.E. Lively shot Sid Hatfield the year after the movie takes place, in actuality Lively shot Hatfield’s deputy, Ed Chambers, not Hatfield.
##Matewan (1987) PG-13
It takes more than guns to kill a man.
>>!Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, “Matewan” celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named “Few Clothes” Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan’s vested interests so that justice and workers’ rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.!<
Drama | History
Director: John Sayles
Actors: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 73% with 104 votes
Runtime: 2:12
[TMDB](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/24276)
https://youtu.be/quNdDzcog6Q?si=nMnqhMHLL0ko3Az8
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