Product Details

• Actors: Ron Howard, Art Carney, Tarah Nutter, Richard Dysart
• Directors: Roger Young
• Format: NTSC, Color
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Delta Library Compan
• VHS Release Date: March 7, 1990
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301581555
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #131,117 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars GOT MILK?, August 2, 2001

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EMAN NEP - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bitter Harvest (1981 TV-movie) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I remember seeing this movie in my high school science class. No kidding. I can see you're thinking how a movie shown in science class can be interesting--I was thinking the same thing. But this movie is actually pretty good. Bitter Harvest tells the story of a family of farmers that have a bunch of cows that they milk, then bottle and sell the milk. But suddenly the cows start to die off from some mysterious disease. The farmers call the authorities to find out what's wrong with the cows. They don't know, because it's probably a new disease. Then, towards the middle of the movie, the people in the area find out that when humans drink the milk, you can lose hair and your memory. Most frightening to me was this scene where this farmer was on his tractor, sitting slumped over the wheel. The disease had made him--a veteran farmer, no less--forget how to operate his tractor! Finally, at the end of the movie, it turns out there is no other choice than to stop the disease from spreading--but I won't tell you how they do it. As you can see, this is a pretty interesting movie, but not very well known. But what is most scary about it is this: It's a True Story.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars True story based in MI, October 17, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Bitter Harvest (1981 TV-movie) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie is a true story from back in the '70s on a dairy farm in Michigan. The movie details how the cattle were dying, for unbeknownst reasons, and the hoops the farmer had to jump through to finally figure out what was causing it. To today, this has played a major area of interest in MI. People who lived in MI during the '70s or consumed milk from MI during this time, have higher levels of PBB's in the blood. Many studies have been conducted to see if this has had any after effects.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A TRUE STORY THAT SHOULD BE ON DVD, October 27, 2005

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stewart L (flushing ,ny) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bitter Harvest (1981 TV-movie) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED WHY ISNT THIS MOVIE ON DVD? IT IS A REAL TEAR JERKER AND WILL REALLY MOVE YOU .THIS MOVIE WILL KEEP YOU ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT.THE MOVI IS BASED ON A TRUE STORY WHERE TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WERE CONTAMINATED BY CHEMICAL POISIONING A COVER-UP INSUED MANY PEOPLE AND ANIMALS DIED FROM THIS I WONT GIVE AWAY THE ENDING AS YOU SHOULD BUY OR RENT THIS MOVIE .