The greatest and most humanitarian film to come out of Hollywood (or anywhere else)

Rating: 10/10 (15 March 2005)

I saw this film when it was first released in the UK. Like every other boy at that age I was a regular picturegoer and enjoyed the solid entertainment provided. My country was at war and we needed entertainment. But this film had a profound effect on me. It told me more about why we had to fight for democracy so that our society could be held to account for the way it treated its members than any of the propaganda films of the war. The humanity of the Joads, the way in which Ma fought to keep her family together, the way in which greed and corruption could ruin society and make us all losers was subtly and artistically portrayed. This is a film which should make Hollywood proud.