In Dubious Battle

2016
R
1h 50m

IMDb RATING

6.0/10

4.6K

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Robert Duvall, James Franco, Selena Gomez, and Nat Wolff in In Dubious Battle (2016)

In the California apple country, nine hundred migratory workers rise up against the landowners after getting paid a faction of the wages they were promised. The group takes on a life of its own -- stronger than its individual members and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike is founded on his tragic idealism -- on the "courage never to submit or yield."

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An activist gets caught up in the labor movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s.An activist gets caught up in the labor movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s.An activist gets caught up in the labor movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s.

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IMDb RATING

6.0/10

4.6K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 wins

Trivia
The DGA (Directors Guild of America) withheld Director James Franco's last paycheck in order to pay the crew.

Goofs
Scene where Mac brushes his teeth, he's using a 21st century white plastic toothbrush with accordion bend.

Quotes
[last lines]
Mac: [narrating] People think they want wealth or power, but that ain't it. People just wanna know their lives matter. That *they* matter. Having some control over your own life, that's worth fighting for, no matter the cost.

Connections
Referenced in Half in the Bag: The Disaster Artist (2017)

Soundtracks
Which Side Are You On?
Written by Florence Reece
Performed by The Almanac Singers featuring Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Woody Guthrie, and others
Published by Stormking Music (BMI)
By Arrangement of Bicycle Music Company
From the recording entitled "Talking Union and Other Union Songs" (FW05285)
Courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, (p) & © 1955. Used by Permission.

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Featured review

5/10

Story just goes stail

The movie starts off nicely and the story develops around the main characters and adds characters as it goes. However the excellent cast within this movie cannot remove the fact that this movie stars around the 30-minute mark and never really regains momentum. You're waiting for something extraordinary to happen but it never does. Robert Duvall is only in the movie maybe four times of a total of 20 minutes perhaps, he however plays the villain masterfully. In fact all of the cast are excellent, the script on the other hand is a different story. Five stars from me.