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Release Date: 1988

Cast: Rubén Blades, Richard Bradford, Christopher Walken, Sônia Braga, Julie Carmen, Melanie Griffith, Freddy Fender, James Gammon, Carlos Riquelme, Chick Vennera, John Heard, Daniel Stern ...MORE

Cast: Rubén Blades, Richard Bradford, Christopher Walken, Sônia Braga, Julie Carmen, Melanie Griffith, Freddy Fender, James Gammon, Carlos Riquelme, Chick Vennera, John Heard, Daniel Stern, Tony Genaro ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Film Adaptation, Comedy, Drama Film, Comedy-Drama

The Milagro Beanfield War is a 1988 American drama film based on the John Nichols novel of the same name, the first book in a trilogy. It was directed by Robert Redford and the screenplay was written by Nichols and David S. Ward. The ensemble cast includes Ruben Blades, Sônia Braga, Julie Carmen, Melanie Griffith, John Heard, Daniel Stern, Chick Vennera, and Christopher Walken. Filmed on location in Truchas, New Mexico, the film is set in the fictional rural town of Milagro, with a population of 426, a predominantly Hispanic and Catholic town, with a largely interrelated population. The... MORE

The Milagro Beanfield War is a 1988 American drama film based on the John Nichols novel of the same name, the first book in a trilogy. It was directed by Robert Redford and the screenplay was written by Nichols and David S. Ward. The ensemble cast includes Ruben Blades, Sônia Braga, Julie Carmen, Melanie Griffith, John Heard, Daniel Stern, Chick Vennera, and Christopher Walken. Filmed on location in Truchas, New Mexico, the film is set in the fictional rural town of Milagro, with a population of 426, a predominantly Hispanic and Catholic town, with a largely interrelated population. The film tells of one man's quixotic struggle as he defends his small beanfield and his community against much larger business and state political interests. Nearly 500 residents of an agricultural community in the mountains of northern New Mexico face a crisis almost without a stir, until a young, unemployed handy man with a family of four begins to irrigate his father's parched bean field. State politics and big business interests have agreed in a backroom deal to usurp the lifeblood of the town, water, in order to pave the way for a land buy-out that threatens the way of life of the residents who LESS