Curse of the Starving Class

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Curse of the Starving Class (1995)

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Based on the play by Sam Shepard, this trailer-trash drama pits a pitiful family against con men ranging from sleazy bar owners to shady real estate agents. Adapted for the screen by Bruce Beresford.

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Title	Curse of the Starving Class (1995)
Runtime	1 hr. 41 min.
Studio	Lionsgate
Genres	Drama
Description	A poverty-stricken farming family attempts to put food on the table while holding on to their personal dreams of a better life. However, as they individually pursue their own dreams, the family unity begins to disintegrate, until all are alienated from each other.

4 months ago

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This movie hit home. Some days it sure feels like a curse. Open the fridge and nothing in it and only a couple dollars in my pocket. Hard finding work. Blame the economy. Blame illegals taking work away from me, or more to the point - the other contractors that hire them and a president that just let's them keep a'comin. I had to let all my help go. Some days I find jobs to do, but I make less than when I was the helper. I sure hope Ron Paul get's elected and puts us back where we once belonged.

I can't look as the glass half full when it is empty. I came into this world with nothing, and I still have most of it.

7 months ago

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wonderfully intense characters...lost in the malaise of scraping the bottom in America. I loved the son's prose...Sam Shepard rocks!

8 months ago

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More than half of America doesn't own a television. You think you have your life all figured out, then you realize that you are living in a little bubble. There are so many different lives out there. You aren't living a life, sitting in your room, waiting for God to tell you what to do. You are merely existing. It's time to let go of the past, admit that you know nothing, and start exploring the world.

8 months ago

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The families poverty is mainly a result of the Veteran father's (James Wood) PTSD and alcoholism. Interesting and intense family dysfunctional (of course) dynamics. Very well scripted, but don't expect a hollywood ending. This is a film to have you thinking a bit afterwards or maybe even relating (though no one would admit that). White elephants prancing all over in this film ... all kinds of denial.

Kathy Bates plays the wife and Randy Quaid is the white trash shyster lawyer.

I wouldn't call the family white trash, but I guess that is how they would be defined. Very sick household that daddy brought down with his disease.

8 months ago

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I watched expecting "What ever" .With the actors you would think it'd
be a good movie, but I was sorely disappointed. I kept expecting something to happen ...well I guess it did, It got even dumber as it went along. Lots of mistakes (Locking a kid up over night?) Pink Cad. convert. stored in a barn with top down(no dust in the car?)while they drove junkers.
Was that an Edsel he drove? I would call this movie Bizarre.

8 months ago

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The story was well written and acted out. The plot is very real and can be today, as it wasn't very long ago. High rollers come and try to take from the unfortunate; such a shame. All others wanted was money not caring what it did to a family. The ending was not the best, but it was probably more like the actual world.

8 months ago

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Sam Shepard is great. I can't believe I am seeing this for the first time. The acting, the story everything in this movie will hit home and make you think.

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