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To me, this movie is perfection.

Simply Perfect

Best movie ever!

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

A spoiled rotten 'male model' (Kurt Russell) is forced to work off a debt by helping a man (Dennis Weaver) who has a threshing crew. The Foreman has a young daughter (Mare Winningham) and does not trust the young model as far as he can throw him. The Threshing crew is traveling the Midwest from town to town threshing the ripe wheat. As they travel, Dennis Weaver, the foreman, finds he has a medical problem that needs immediate treatment, but he does not have time to leave the threshing to try to take care of it. Meanwhile, Russell is belligerent about working for the crew, but really likes Winningham.. As the summer progresses, Kurt starts behaving like a man, and Weaver allows him more freedom and responsibility on the crew. I won't tell you the final outcome, but it is a warm and powerful change in both men that made this a move I would remember for many many years. I believe that I saw this movie early in the 1980's, and have been watching for it ever since. I would love to see it again!

I agree with all the other reviewers in that this is quite a well made movie, however you don't have watch too closely to see that actually not a lot of wheat gets cut by these custom cutters. In scenes with the combines, they spend most of their time just driving aimlessly around an already cut field in the dark or even worse making it appear like they are cutting wheat by in fact just driving the machine through some scrub grass. Some minimal stock footage was used of combines in wheat but it amounts to seconds of the film.Its sad that the movie could not have had the chance to get some decent shots of the machines doing the job.This is the only major factual fault in what really is a well produced, directed and acted TV movie.

This is an excellent television movie with much to say that was made during the peak of the made-for-TV era. It's the story of a widower (Dennis Weaver) and his kids who travel around the farm belt hiring out as professional wheat harvesters. Kurt Russell signs on reluctantly to help. Weaver's performance is one of his best and the rest of the cast shines as well. Top notch writing, directing, photography and score. I saw this film during a very dark time in my life and it inspired me to press on and make changes. I recommend it to anyone in need of inspiration. They don't make these kind of intelligent, sensitive and involving films for television often anymore. But these are exactly the kind of films we need today.

This movie is an insult to the viewer at every conceivable level. It is an abomination of junk writing, brain-dead story, wretched casting and mind-numbing pointlessness. I watched this film in sheer horror. There was nothing of any value on the screen. I had a better time watching "The Swarm." Every moment was false. It was as if someone had taken one of the greatest movies ever made, Days of Heaven, shoved it in a blender and then threw the results in my face. Wait a minute. It wasn't "as if," it was. Everyone associated with this picture should be ashamed to the depths of their being. They should have been blacklisted, fined, and never permitted to work in movies again. Alas, I have read many critics who ooh and aah over the rubbish and I guess in that way reveal they never saw a movie they didn't like. People this is a plea: watch Days of Heaven instead. Know the difference between art and dreck.