Superb American classic.

Rating: 8/10 (26 June 2017)

The Grapes of Wrath is a novel that I read and enjoyed in school, and this movie is a classic in its own right. The story is well-known at this point, and the movie powerfully tells the story of the Joad clan as they journey to California.
There are some changes from the novel, frequently for the better. Some of the elements of the story in California were re-arranged and ends on a more optimistic note than the novel. The difficulty in expressing the more abstract chapters of the novel is clear, but I think they are well-done. The movie is more vaguely optimistically technocratic, but that agrees more with my politics, so I hardly mind!
(I saw this movie on June 22, 2017.)