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Farmer struggles to keep food on the table, and regain his son who has joined a gang of marauding city-folk during the world's worst famine.
Deadly Harvest
1977 Directed by Timothy Bond
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Vingança Sangrenta, Lotta per la sopravvivenza, Cosecha mortifera
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21 Aug 1977
- Theatrical (Montréal Film Festival)
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Good evening and welcome Fellow Children of Chaos.
This would have been better as a book than a movie. The movie is a bit all over the place, there is clunky world building, there are two concurrent stories, and the visuals are unimpressive.
So let's kinda break down what I mean.
The movie keeps jumping to locations and viewpoints, because it is about the whole world being effected by this disaster. WE get boardrooms, farms, roads, and suites. And it jumps from place to place awkwardly. In a book you have paragraph breaks and chapters that allow for a sudden change in the world and it is not as jarring as when you are trying to flow in a movie.…
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New World Video released this Canadian eco-thriller about a society that has run out of food due to climate disasters, though NO ONE is going to eat any eggplants. Also, there's still plenty of gas! So, what's the problem here? Kim Cattrall's hair? Giving an exposed ham as a gift? Possibly using an actual dead/asleep cow to portray a dead cow? We discuss it all here:
open.spotify.com/episode/6iSNFSQD8t1JTVZQFZfHhZ?si=lmCj84zmRDqkbs2HnQOnVQ
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A Canadian eco-thriller, perfect to watch on Canadian Film Day / Earth Day! Global cooling has ruined our crops 2 years in a row, and now desperate and dastardly city folk head to country looking for food! TOO TIMELY!!!
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I actually thought this was much better than I had anticipated even though it's far from being original. The story follows a bit of No Blade of Grass, Soylent Green and various other post-apocalyptic sci-fi stuff. In this case global warming has occurred and well winter beings in August and pollution makes it so that food is scarce. We meet up with a family that has realized they have to kill their pet cow for food, the daughter tries to run away with it to set it free, but on the way she is met with some rogues that shoot the damned thing right in front of the kid! Then they meet an old man and his son scavaging food…
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July 2020 Movie Challenge
Day 14 - A film involving food.
It's interesting how relevant this movie is today. A lot of what they talk about are things being said now. This is a very interesting concept. Sadly, the movie isn't that good. It's shot like a TV movie, it has the feel of a play, shot for TV. While the concept is interesting, the story is not. I was bored for most of this movie. The characters are so bland and uninteresting. The idea of food running out and people getting desperate and society crumbling is scary. We had a slight taste of what that could be like with the coronavirus, with people buying everything in the stores and nothing was left of shelves. I don't think this is worth your time though.
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Climate change and pollution have created a worldwide famine. The Government enacts martial law, which includes closing the borders, prohibiting long distance telephone calls, and rationing food to “30%.” Massive (6’6”) CHEYENNE star Walker plays a pacifist farmer who’s hunkering down for the winter (in August) with his family, which includes wife Greenhalgh, little girl Tucker, teenage daughter Cattrall (SEX AND THE CITY), hotheaded son Davies (FOREVER KNIGHT), and new son-in-law Henshaw. Earnestness is in high supply in Martin Lager’s (THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME) screenplay, as Walker struggles to keep his family together and healthy while the rest of the world scuffles for scraps. Davies joins a local vigilante group that provides protection in exchange for food, and…