Act of Vengeance

  • Drama
  • Crime
  • TV Movie
9/4/1986
95
PG-13

His was an act of defiance. Theirs was an act of vengeance.

In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.

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  • CharlesTatum

    Charles Bronson, mired in crappy B action flicks in the 1980's, decided to take this made-for-HBO flick to stretch his acting chops. He should have just made another "Death Wish" movie, instead.

    Based on a true story set in 1969, Bronson plays United Mine Workers union official Jock Yablonski. He fawns over union president Tony Boyle (Wilford Brimley), who is made out to be a ruthless crook immediately. As Jock and his wife Margaret (Ellen Burstyn) coast through life, a mine accident claims the lives of eighty people. Boyle arrives in the grieving West Virginia town and defends the coal company over the miners.

    Yablonski is almost run out of town, and decides he has had enough. He announces his candidacy for the union presidency, and...

    June 2, 2018

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