Nomadland
Nomadland
Frances McDormand stars in a scene from the movie Nomadland. The Catholic News Service classification is A-III adults. The Motion Picture Association rating is R restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. (CNS photo/Searchlight Pictures)
By: John Mulderig
NEW YORK (CNS) In 1940, director John Ford adapted John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the year before into the classic film “The Grapes of Wrath.”
Both book and picture distilled the miseries of the Dust Bowl and of the Great Depression generally into a profoundly moving portrait of uprooted Oklahoma farmers on the move to what they hoped would be a better life in California.
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