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www.spiritualityhealth.com - : The necessity to create community and make it work is one of the most powerful, long-lasting, and painful imperatives of American life. The Milagro Beanfield War, directed by Robert Redford and adapted from John Nichols's 1974 novel, treats this theme with humor and humanism. The film is set in a small Hispanic town in northern New Mexico where a developer is building a leisure-time resort replete with condos, tennis courts, and a golf course. When Joe (Chick Vennera), a handyman from Milagro, irrigates his half-acre beanfield with water controlled by the development, he sets in motion a series of events that reveal the underside of the Anglos's vision of progress. more...
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