Stellead
Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful
Quiet Muffin
This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Scarlet
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
lightninboy
Everything about this movie is "classic," as far as custom combining movies go. About the only thing wrong with it is maybe too much licentiousness. Weaver and the others do excellent acting. Custom combining is an American tradition since World War II. In the late '70s and early '80s, there were a lot of combining crews, as combines were getting bigger and more comfortable to operate, yet they weren't as modern as today's combines. And a lot of those combines were Canadian-built Massey-Ferguson 760s. This was an ABC TV movie. It was filmed in Canada, though the movie is supposed to occur in the U.S.A. Weaver's character almost kills himself and loses a combine, but the harvest must go on.
NotSureifthisis7734
This movie is an insult to the viewer at every conceivable level. It is an abomination of junk writing, brain-dead story, wretched casting and mind-numbing pointlessness. I watched this film in sheer horror. There was nothing of any value on the screen. I had a better time watching "The Swarm." Every moment was false. It was as if someone had taken one of the greatest movies ever made, Days of Heaven, shoved it in a blender and then threw the results in my face. Wait a minute. It wasn't "as if," it was. Everyone associated with this picture should be ashamed to the depths of their being. They should have been blacklisted, fined, and never permitted to work in movies again. Alas, I have read many critics who ooh and aah over the rubbish and I guess in that way reveal they never saw a movie they didn't like. People this is a plea: watch Days of Heaven instead. Know the difference between art and dreck.
Slim-4
Despite its simple plot, this television movie can be viewed on several levels. This story of a stranded model who reluctantly takes a temporary job on a wheat harvesting crew is about the values we cherish. Kurt Russell as the model and Dennis Weaver as the cancer-stricken harvester who needs help on his crew lend real credibility to their roles. In less than two hours the script tells us the meaning of life and death and what love is and what it isn't. This film tells us about the self-renewal which can come from hard work and responsibility.Kurt Russell plays Larry, a male model who is stranded in a small Kansas town when he screws up a photo shoot. He literally runs into Dennis Weaver, who is looking for a warm body for his harvesting crew. He isn't too particular or he wouldn't hire this man who has never done a honest days work and has the hands to show it. Despite some rough moments Russell learns the value of hard work and becomes a leader on the crew.Several subplots are cleverly weaved into the delightful mix. Dennis Weaver finds that he has cancer and is advised by his doctor to "bail out". This is easier said than done, because he has obligations to farmers whose wheat must be cut. He reaches out to his son, who fled to Canada because of his objection to the war. It is obvious that there is still tension between the two of them and the son returns to Canada. There is a competing harvester (played by Wilford Brimley) whose son went to Viet Nam and was maimed. Mare Winningham plays Weaver's daughter, a girl who is looking for a ticket to a new life. In the end Larry offers the only hope for another harvest.The focus of this film is the relationship between Russell and Weaver. Despite the difference in their backgrounds, they have much in common. They meet on a day which has not been kind to either of them. Russell has lost his job and Weaver has discovered his cancer. "It's been that kind of day", he tells Russell. Uneasy and volatile at first, the relationship develops into one of affection and even love.Filmed in Canada there is much more emphasis on scenery than usual in this television movie. "Do you ever get tired of this?", Russell asks Weaver as he gazes across the wheat fields framed in the setting sun. I don't know about him, but I never did.
tanner
I have looked for this movie on TV, satellite, and rental. It has not been shown in our area in over six years. I would like to see it released or at least shown on TV so I can copy it. It's a very good family/romance type movie. That also deals honestly with life, love, growing up, facing responsibilities and the hardship of farming during wheat harvest.
