A preacher and a union organizer walk into a mill. What happens next? Pure 1983 TV movie magic.
A preacher teams up with a labor union organizer to help unionize the mill where he worked.
Acting
Dick Anthony Williams brings preacher gravitas; Danny Glover's early supporting turn.
Direction
Kopple's documentary eye makes the mill feel authentically suffocating.
Director
Barbara Kopple
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Reagan era's union-busting wave, this feels like deliberate counterprogramming to 1980s individualism.
Barbara Kopple won an Oscar for Harlan County USA (1976) but rarely directed narrative features—this is a fascinating outlier.
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