Academy Awards, USA 1987
| Won Oscar | Best Documentary, Features Joseph Feury Milton Justice
Tied with Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (1985).
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HBO
Directed by Lee Grant
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(VHS, MPI Home Video)
Homelessness during the Reagan era is explored by actress Lee Grant. Farmers in Minnesota band together to fight bankers foreclosing on their properties and the looming takeover of corporate farming; the inhabitants of a shanty community in LA try to stop it from being bulldozed; and squatters in NYC struggle to survive. Matter-of-fact documentary never gets beyond the obvious, but the roots of the homelessness that still plagues the country can be discerned. A reminder that it was not all bliss during the Reagan era.
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