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      Taking Back Our Town

      TV-PG 2001 1 hr. 36 min. Drama List
      Reviews 50% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score Pat Melancon (Laura Innes) and Emelda West (Ruby Dee) work together to stop a corporation from building a petrochemical plant. Read More Read Less

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      Frances H Very well done. I always thought Laura Innes was a good actress and of course this flick has the great Ruby Dee, as well. This story shows that fighting the good fight can be done, but I really wonder how many such groups succeed. Not as many as should, because our politicians are bought by money from the Big Corporate and they stay bought, while controlling the minds of the less educated working people by promising them jobs that they really don't plan to deliver. The exact same thing happened to my county and township with the Mariner East 2 pipeline. We have the risk of suffocating on methane gas for the payback of a few local people renting a few rooms to the workers from Texas and Oklahoma (I saw their license plates) and our bulldozer excavating people getting about 2 weeks of work. That was it. The pipeline company representative tried to tell me it was energy for Pa., but only one plant in the whole state got a little bit of their fuel source from natural fracked gas. The rest was supposed to go to Scotland to make plastic, but the Scots decided they didn't want the plastic. So our Republican politicians here in Pa. (which doesn't have any laws against the said politicians accepting "gifts" from companies) are bought by the pipeine companies and fracking industry, passed a one year moratorium on municipalities banning the use of single use plastics, so that they could use the gas to make plastics here and President Trump announced a big plastic plant to be built in Pa. The fact that plastic is killing our oceans and the fish in them, that we drink and bathe in water filled with plastic microfibers, and that even our rain water contains plastic doesn't matter to them as much as the money they get from these companies, just like in this flick. And the practice of deliberately putting these plants in areas of lower income neighborhoods, especially predominantly black ones, so that the people there don't have the education to fight against them and if they do, aren't as likely to be successful, that goes on into today, and it stinks to high heaven! Our county doesn't even have an evacuation or emergency plan for a deadly pipeline leak and these pipelines have a history of 40% of their leaks never even being reported. So this film really spoke to me! Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 09/18/19 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Pat Melancon (Laura Innes) and Emelda West (Ruby Dee) work together to stop a corporation from building a petrochemical plant.
      Director
      Sam Pillsbury
      Executive Producer
      Jinny Schreckinger
      Screenwriter
      Monte Stettin, Susanna Styron, Bridget Terry
      Production Co
      Hearst Entertainment Productions
      Rating
      TV-PG
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Apr 14, 2017
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