Dear God, the misery...

Rating: 7/10 (21 June 2006)

The misery of the working man. Tom Joad gets out of prison to find that the family farm is being run out by the big corporate guys. They all move to California. Half the movie is just a f*cked up uncomfortable hillbilly drive. Grandpa dies on the way. Everybody wants to die, though. They make it out to CA only to find that everybody and their father has moved to CA looking for work. The work they get pays sh*t and they live like dogs, getting hassled and abused by "the man". The preacher (who ain't a preacher no more) asks Tom to help him organize a union. But "the man" kills the preacher. Tom kills a union breaker in the mêlée. The family flees the farm and finds a Utopian workers commune run by the government. But the union breakers come to that place too. Looking to keep the working man down. Tom decides to flee that place, and then becomes the subject of a Bruce Springsteen song. "Look in their eyes, ma- I'll be there."