Fresh
Redford and company have put a quirky twist on the material, investing it with a quasi-mystical aspect as well as some raw comedy.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Milagro Beanfield War
1988 · 1h 57m · R
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Directed by
Robert Redford
Overview
In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this will result in the eventual displacement of the local Hispanic farmers, they cannot arouse much opposition because of the short term opportunities offered by construction jobs.
Director and cast
- Robert Redford Director
- Rubén Blades as Sheriff Bernabe Montoya
- Sônia Braga as Ruby Archuleta
- Richard Bradford as Ladd Devine
- James Gammon as Horsethief Shorty
- Melanie Griffith as Flossie Devine
- Julie Carmen as Nancy Mondragon
- John Heard as Charlie Bloom
- Christopher Walken as Kyril Montana
- Daniel Stern as Herbie Platt
- Carlos Riquelme as Marshal Amarante Cordova
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
59%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Fairly choked with good intentions, whimsy, touches of fantasy, and cardboard liberal stereotypes.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten
Redford's film sustains a slow mood of simpatico amiability and photographs the landscape with moony or golden washes that are perhaps hard to dislike, but is slain by its adherence to an outdated populist mythology.
Wally Hammond, Time Out
Rotten
The film is very big on sunsets and sunrises. It also has a touristy appreciation for all manner of things folkloric. What it doesn't have is dramatic coherence or backbone.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
Corny, you bet. But that's to be admired in an old war horse on the last frontier.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
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