The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) on Netflix
In Milagro, New Mexico, Ladd Devine buys land and water rights for a vacation resort. Turned away from the construction site, Joe Mondragon opens an irrigation tap and plants beans.
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Plot summary
Milagro is a small town in New Mexico where water is scarce. Ladd Devine, a real estate mogul, buys up land and water rights for a vacation resort that could be the largest in the state. Joe Mondragon wants work at the construction site but is turned away. He tells Amarante, an elder neighbor, that he worries about the drought. His people have lost the water rights to their ancestral lands. He kicks the tap on the irrigation pipe, water seeps into his bare field, and he spends his last ten dollars on pinto beans to plant.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Robert Redford was interested in filming part of the movie in the Plaza del Cerro of Chimayo, New Mexico, which is argued to be the last surviving fortified Spanish plaza in North America, but many locals objected to big business changing the small community, which forced him to film in Truchas.
- John Nichols called his own account of the film project 'Night of the Living Beanfield: How an Unsuccessful Cult Novel Became an Unsuccessful Cult Film in Only Fourteen Years, Eleven Nervous Breakdowns, and $20 Million'.
- Melanie Griffith has said that her best scenes in The Milagro Beanfield War were never filmed at all, because of snow.
