Kurt Russell and Dennis Weaver harvest wheat, feelings, and your tears in forgotten '80s TV gold.
A drifter stranded in Kansas accepts a job offer from a wheat harvester who, in desperation over his cancer and financial woes, attempts suicide but becomes a father-figure to the young man.
Acting
Weaver and Russell's chemistry is devastatingly understated.
Cinematography
Golden wheat fields as character, not backdrop.
Director
Joseph Sargent
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kurt Russell took this TV movie role right before his '80s action star reinvention, and it's his last truly vulnerable performance for years.
Shot during the 1980 farm crisis, the wheat fields aren't just pretty — they're documenting an American way of life that was literally disappearing as cameras rolled.
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