Angel City

Plot

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. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Cast

Bob Hannah - Fred; Will Knickerbocker - Loan Shark; Jennifer Jason Leigh - Kristy Teeter; Robert MacNaughton - Bennie Teeter; Mitchell Ryan - Silas Creedy; Jennifer Warren - Cloma Teeter; Red West - Sud; Paul Winfield - Cy; Bob Minor - Jabbo; Ralph Waite - Jared Teeter

Credit

Philip Leacock - Director, Dann Cahn - Editor, Carol Connors - Composer (Music Score), Billy Preston - Composer (Music Score), Mark Snow - Composer (Music Score), James Pergola - Cinematographer, John Newland - Producer, Alan Jay Factor - Producer, Billy Preston - Singer, James Lee Barrett - Screenwriter, Patrick Smith - Book Author

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