American Dream (film)
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| Directed by | Cathy Caplan Thomas Haneke Barbara Kopple Lawrence Silk |
| Produced by | Arthur Cohn Barbara Kopple Peter Miller (coordinating producer) |
| Music by | Michael Small |
| Cinematography | Tom Hurwitz Mathieu Roberts Nesya Shapiro |
| Editing by | Cathy Caplan Thomas Haneke Lawrence Silk |
| Release date(s) |  6 October 1990 (premiere at NYFF) March 18, 1992 (NYC only) |
| Running time | 98 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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American Dream is a documentary film directed by Barbara Kopple centered on union meatpacking workers at Hormel Foods in Austin, Minnesota between 1985 and 1986. Hormel cut the hourly wage from $10.69 to $8.25 after posting a net profit of $30 million. The local P-9 union opposed the cut, but the United Food and Commercial Workers Union did not support them. American Dream features footage of union meetings and press releases, Hormel press releases, news broadcasts, and in-depth interviews with people on both sides of the issue.
The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for 1990.
| Preceded by Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt |
Academy Award for Documentary Feature 1990 |
Succeeded by In the Shadow of the Stars |
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