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This movie was very good. I saw it after reading the book and was not disappointed. Tom Cruise had a decent performance, but I felt the performances of Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook, and Wilford Brimley were especially great and put this film above most similar movies.

Brimley has never to my knowledge had a role similar to this before and he was excellent. I had not really been impressed with his acting but in this movie I definitely was.

The suspense flowed naturally and never seemed forced just to fill time. The music score was very good. The variety of settings (first Cambridge, MA, then Memphis, TN, then the Caribbean) made it more interesting, too.

I have seen it twice..once on the big screen and once on video. The book was also very good.

I definitely liked this documentary. I usually think of it a little when I see a Hormel product at the grocery store. It was impressively done and it really has an authentic feel to it. For some reason I have not yet seen Harlan County USA, but will certainly do so sometime this year.

I have seen this twice and it is definitely worth more than one viewing. While the tone starts as pro-union, there seems to be at least some hints about their limitations as well later in the film. I spent my childhood in a town nearly 100 miles north of Austin and the film made me appreciative that my father had access to more opportunities when he got laid off (we were much closer to the Minneapolis region than Austin). I could feel for the families of those in Austin during this film as it was primarily a one company town at that time and for all I know it may still be the case.

Documentaries work best when there is a focus on "real" people rather than well known celebrities IMO. This is evidence of that and I recommend this film.

The 80's were full of horror sequels that I really did not like for the most part. That was the first good thing about the movie I liked (before even viewing!). I still did not expect too much, just something to enjoy for 90 minutes. However, this was a well done movie and while I would not rate it at the level of Fatal Attraction (also a late 80's movie suspense movie), it was enjoyable and there were some very good performances. Tim Daly, Kelly Preston and Rick Rossovich all seemed right for their roles. It was Audra Lindley who had a very good performance and gave it that something extra it needed to be truly creepy and suspenseful. The setting is modern LA where Daly works and most of the occult scenes are set in coastal areas (possibly near Malibu) and occur in the evening. The ending is very well done, but I won't spoil it for you. Like most good suspense movies, watch this one with the lights out. Enjoy!