Keeping on

• Director: Barbara Kopple
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• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Americana
• Themes: Labor Unions
• Release Year: 1981
• Run Time: 75 minutes

Plot

Keeping On was the only "fiction" film directed by documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Like her earlier Harlan County USA and The American Dream, the film examines a labor-management struggle in a hardscrabble Southern mill town. Dick Anthony Williams plays a minister who encourages the activities of labor unionist James Broderick. Williams' stand polarizes the community, and the cleric is ostracized by the so-called "right" people. Completed in 1981, Keeping On premiered February 8, 1983 on PBS' American Playhouse. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Guy Boyd; James Broderick; Rosalind Cash; Danny Glover; Carol Kane; Marcia Rodd; Dick Anthony Williams; Carl Lee

Credit

Barbara Kopple - Director

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