American Dream

The award-winning film of American lives, American courage, and the...

98 mins
When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local labor union decides to go on strike and fight for a wage they believe is fair. But as the work stoppage drags on and the strikers face losing everything, friends become enemies, families are divided and the very future of this typical mid American town is threatened.

Barbara Kopple

Sound Recordist

Mark Stuart Lane

Production Design

Peter Gilbert

Director of Photography

Kevin Keating

Director of Photography

Lee Dichter

Sound Mixer

Cathy Caplan

Co-Director

Al Nahmias

Sound Editor

Donald Klocek

Sound Editor

Hart Perry

Director of Photography

Mark Petersson

Director of Photography

Mathieu Roberts

Director of Photography

Michael Small

Original Music Composer

Arthur Cohn

Producer

Lawrence Silk

Co-Director

Thomas Haneke

Co-Director

Newton Thomas Sigel

Additional Director of Photography

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