Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Powerful

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

This multi-layered morality film is not as easy to watch as something with a romantic veneer, like Bonnie and Clyde for example, but it runs much, much deeper into the core of our nature than many others do. The story involves two brothers who are fighting to save the family farm for reasons that are never too obvious given the shrewd script, the carefully placed focus we have on the home, the community, the other players.Richard Gere as Frank Roberts gives a masterful display as the guilt ridden son letting down his father, his family, himself, and yet appearing, by the end of the film to be the only one with a soul, with warmth, with feelings, with an identity that hasn't to be etched out by someone else.The imagery is often raw as in the "beast of burden" being forced to pull more than it can, whilst an evil showman cracks his whip and the audience calls for the beast to pull. It seems only we and Gere can see what is going on. And a bank robbery where morality goes all over the place except where it should lie courtesy of such clever acting and script. And a final scene allowing us to make up our own minds about what we learned during this wonderful feast of images.This is drama to be admired for what it depicts rather than any thrills or spills or CGI. It is definitely adult and definitely compelling once the stage is set but I wonder if it was ever really commercial.Nine out of Ten.

There was a Midwestern farm crisis from 1984 to 1987 or so, and Nikita Kruschev did come to Iowa to the Garst farm at Coon Rapids as I recall. There are some good things about this movie, but I think the bad things outweigh them. It is one of the few movies about modern agriculture. The incident at the trailer house makes Gere's character look like a real loser. The incident with the ox pull makes you wonder if there was cruelty to an animal. You don't usually see an armed guard at a bank in Iowa. Maybe the writer watched too many Andy Griffith shows. I've never seen a grain truck back into an elevator and I've never seen a combine unloading corn into a truck on the go in real life. All in all, I can't help but think that someone in the state of Iowa could have written a better movie.

I felt the story started rambling after the farm fire with no real cohesive storyline. Richard Gere tried too hard and over-acted. Maverick, lone gun, come to mind. Save the farm for these jokers? I think not!

I was in this movie as the kid who drove a bike across the screen when the vehickle pulls in to the trailor park and they dunk down and then the Linn County Sheriffs dept drives by them then I drive a bike across the picture and my brother is throwing a football. Its a good movie with downhome values