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Based on the true story of coal miners who became trapped underground in a cave-in on Christmas Eve, 1951.
Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
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The Christmas Coal Mine Miracle, O Milagre de Natal
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26 Dec 1977
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If you’re planning to watch this for Kurt Russell as I did - don’t. This somehow was one of the most uninspired, bland films out there. It’s depressing, the constant discussion of virginity is annoying, you can’t see a damn thing in the mining sequences. Incredible, I literally don’t respect any of you
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A Kurt Russell movie more depressing than The Deadly Tower, and that was about a mass shooting.
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Two titles here, the one under which it is listed here, which tells you absolutely nothing about the plot and the one on the poster which tells you everything. And just to be clear, there is no miracle, no one's prayers for divine intervention are answered as a bunch of miners are trapped down a mine on Christmas day.
In between his time as a Disney kid and entering into partnership with John Carpenter, this is where you will find Kurt Russell, ultimately down the mine, but mostly up top being a rabble-rouser and daring to complain to Mr Caulfied the local version of Henry F Potter, that working conditions are unsafe. He does go down in the end though…
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Boy this town sucks.
That virgin lady really wants to get out and have some sexual relations with Kurt Russell, but he’s too busy being a coal mining hunk.
I kept my fingers crossed for a My Bloody Valentine scenario at the end, but it didn’t happen. -
I couldn't help but laugh when that poster image came up for this as I logged it - it's a movie about coal miners who get trapped in a mine on Christmas Eve (the version I watched was even titled The Christmas Coal Mine Miracle) but that part doesn't actually happen until the last half hour (though there is a little teaser of an explosion at the beginning). Equal if not more time is spent on the family at home, and most of it on Melissa Gilbert's character, and she's really the only person in the entire cast who doesn't completely play into the ridiculous cheesy melodrama of it all. There's a good reason to spend so much time on…