Uploaded May 2009 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
As America feels the full effects of the Bush recession, the Great Depression seems to be on everyone's mind. So I decided to revisit THE GRAPES OF WRATH, the Oscar-winning 1940 film directed by John Ford and based on John Steinbeck's classic novel. Like most people, I'd read this book as a teenager and had also seen the movie, and I remember being moved by both. But let me tell you, when I watched this movie again, in light of all that's happening now, I was absolutely floored. Because the thing is, PRACTICALLY EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN THIS MOVIE IS HAPPENING TODAY. Banks kicking families out of homes, the desperate search for work, people living out of their cars, the danger of being without healthcare — it's all right here in a movie made in 1940 about the Depression of 1929.
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As America feels the full effects of the Bush recession, the Great Depression seems to be on everyone's mind. So I decided to revisit THE GRAPES OF WRATH, the Oscar-winning 1940 film directed by John Ford and based on John Steinbeck's classic novel. Like most people, I'd read this book as a teenager and had also seen the movie, and I remember being moved by both. But let me tell you, when I watched this movie again, in light of all that's happening now, I was absolutely floored. Because the thing is, PRACTICALLY EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN THIS MOVIE IS HAPPENING TODAY. Banks kicking families out of homes, the desperate search for work, people living out of their cars, the danger of being without healthcare — it's all right here in a movie made in 1940 about the Depression of 1929.
For more ReThink Reviews, go here youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B5DFC2A5707C5EBB
