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  • 2003
  • Seventh Art Releasing
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2003
  • Seventh Art Releasing
  • 1 h 22 m
Valley of Tears

Summary An expansive chronicle of life in the small south Texas town of Raymondville. Beginning in 1979 and continuing for a full two decades, Perry charted a progression of successes and setbacks by farmworker organizers and community activists in their fights with wealthy landowners and the local political establishment. (Two Boots Pioneer Th...

Directed By: Hart Perry

Written By: Juan Gonzales

  • 2003
  • Seventh Art Releasing
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2003
  • Seventh Art Releasing
  • 1 h 22 m

Valley of Tears

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary An expansive chronicle of life in the small south Texas town of Raymondville. Beginning in 1979 and continuing for a full two decades, Perry charted a progression of successes and setbacks by farmworker organizers and community activists in their fights with wealthy landowners and the local political establishment. (Two Boots Pioneer Th...

Directed By: Hart Perry

Written By: Juan Gonzales

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Dense, contradictory and distressingly honest, Valley of Tears is that rarity among political documentaries: a genuinely thought-provoking film.
By Dave Kehr FULL REVIEW
75
The town's entrenched racism is impossible to ignore, but the efforts toward change make a compelling history.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
70
An ultimately moving effort that well illustrates the often hopeless situation faced by the people whose lives it depicts.
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70
Perry's careful juxtaposition of images showing the town's sad present with footage of what it's long ceased to be is positively haunting.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
70
Fascinating assemblage combines strike footage first shot in 1979 by Perry when he was working for the Texas Farm Workers Union with film and video lensed over the ensuing 20-plus years.
By Robert Koehler FULL REVIEW
60
Not everything Perry's voices say seems relevant to his central thesis, but they speak fervently and colorfully, and their intensity is compelling even when their message is lacking.
By Tasha Robinson FULL REVIEW
50
That's all laudable - but Perry, a longtime filmmaker, should have given the doc more urgency and punch.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Perry Films
Release Date Nov 28, 2003
Duration 1 h 22 m
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Website http://www.perryfilms.com/
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