The Grapes of Wrath

Movie Review
~The Grapes of Wrath~
Recently released convict Tom Joad returns home in the late 1930s to find his family forced off their ruined Oklahoma farm and moving to California in search of a better life. The farms have been reduced to dust by drought and wind and the families displaced by new machines. The trip is difficult and some family members die of the starvation and heat. California is not the paradise they expected: they only find more misery and brutality. Slowly, the men become hostile and insensitive. When they actually get work picking fruit, they run into labor unrest. The old preacher Casey, the labor leader, is beaten to death and Tom then kills Casey's attacker. Then they stumble into a Department of Agriculture Camp that seems like a paradise. Tom, who is hunted by the police, slips of...