Bitter Harvest

Bitter Harvest (1981)

Genres - Drama  |   Sub-Genres - Docudrama, Family Drama  |   Release Date - Aug 5, 1981 (USA - Unknown)  |   Run Time - 98 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

Ron Howard plays a young farmer and family man whose dairy herd is being decimated by illness. As if this weren't enough, Howard's young son falls seriously ill. The state's agricultural officials could do something about Howard's plight, but red tape and bureaucracy rules the day. Based on a book by Frederick and Sandra Halbert, this caustic indictment of governmental indifference was nominated for four Emmies. Made for television, Bitter Harvest debuted May 18, 1981.

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inheritance, bureaucracy, contamination, disease, environmentalism, farming, race-against-time