The Grapes of Wrath
Description / Introduction
- Character Development: Families in Crisis, Female Role Model
- Moral-Ethical Emphasis: Fairness
- Subjects: Literature/U.S., California, U.S./1929 - 1941, Oklahoma
- Ages 12+, Drama, No MPAA Rating, 1940, 128 minutes, Black and White
Driven off their Oklahoma farm during the dust bowl days of the Great Depression, the members of the Joad family load their belongings into a truck. Like millions of other dispossessed farmers they head to California in search of work. The screenplay is based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by John Steinbeck.
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