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Valley of Tears (2003)
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Reviews Counted: 10
Fresh: 8
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Education/General Interest
Theatrical Release:Nov 26, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: Hart Perry (Director of Photography - "Harlan County, USA"), has documented the lives of Mexican-American migrant farm workers in Raymondville, TX since 1979 when the onion workers' strike broke... [More]
Director: Hart Perry
Reviews for Valley of Tears
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Top CriticThe movie leaves us with a lot of questions, but its rawness draws attention to the cataclysmic social shift the workers are trying to achieve and the long odds against them.
05/21/04
The story didn't travel far beyond the onion fields where Mexican-American laborers worked in harsh conditions for subsistence wages.
05/21/04
Top CriticAn ultimately moving effort that well illustrates the often hopeless situation faced by the people whose lives it depicts.
12/18/03
Top CriticA hard-hitting documentary about the injustices heaped on the Mexican-American community of migrant workers by a small Texas town's white power brokers.
12/04/03
Never feels very thorough but is well worth seeing for clues to the state of race relations from the '70s to the present, especially in out-of-the-way locales like rural Texas
11/29/03
It's a story filled with small triumphs, major setbacks and devastating personal tragedies, remarkably well told.
11/28/03
Dense, contradictory and distressingly honest, Valley of Tears is that rarity among political documentaries: a genuinely thought-provoking film.
11/28/03
Top CriticPerry, a longtime filmmaker, should have given the doc more urgency and punch.
11/28/03
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11/27/03
A vivid record of a 1979 strike by Mexican American migrant farmworkers in the onion fields of Raymondville, Texas.
11/25/03
Top Critic...tells its distressingly factual history in surprisingly touching fashion.
04/15/03
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