The Grapes of Wrath is a drama film directed by John Ford and based on John Steinbeck's novel written and published in 1939.
The film is set during the Great american Depression in the 1930s.
An American family, Joad, are forced together with others, to leave their homeland in Oklahoma and migrate in search of work and a future in California.
The drought, the economic hardship and changes in financial and agricultural industries are the result of forced migration.
The star of film Henry Fonda (Tom Joad), who got out of prison, he is unaware of the sad fate that it will experience him and his family.
On the way back home, Tom finds an itinerant ex-preacher named Jim Casy (John Carradine), hopeless. Tom along with his family began the long journey to the distant California. A long and arduous journey for which unfortunately some members of the family will not be able to get there. Thanks to the courage, strength and determination of the matriarch Ma Joad, played by Jane Darwell, the family will overcome the difficulties and return to hope.
The film won two Academy Awards for Best Director (John Ford) and Best Supporting Actress (Jane Darwell).
The film has some differences compared to the original novel.
The Steinbeck's novel, ends with the downfall and break-up of the Joad family, while the film ends with the Joad family which finds hope and energy.
In 1989, this film was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Music is the song "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime by Judy Collins.
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