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UNITED STATES · 1941
Tobacco Road
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Synopsis
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
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rural poverty · sharecropping · class decline · family struggle · land dispossession
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