by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Angel City plays like a Grapes of Wrath updated to the 1980s. Ralph Waite plays a West Virginia farmer who, faced with the prospect of starving to death on his unproductive land, packs up his family and moves to the so-called Promised Land of Florida. There he goes to work on what is euphemistically called a collective farm. But soon he finds himself surrounded in squalor and misery, working back-breaking hours for slave-labor wages. Paul Winfield, Jennifer Warren and Mitchell Ryan co-star in this made for TV movie, which debuted November 12, 1980.
characteristics
- Down On Their Luck
- Survival
- Survivor
- Slave
- Worker
- Poverty
- Labor-camp
- Cross-cultural-relations
- Deprivation
- Escape
- Corruption
- Migrant-worker
