Percy (2020)

Directed by

Clark Johnson

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

India, United States, Canada

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 136 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An elderly farmer in Saskatchewan finds his crops contaminated by a corporation's genetically modified seeds. He decides to fight the powerful company in court.

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What happens

Percy (also known as Percy vs Goliath) is a 2020 Canadian-American-Indian biographical drama film, directed by Clark Johnson from a screenplay by Garfield Lindsay Miller and Hilary Pryor. It stars Christopher Walken, Christina Ricci, Zach Braff, Luke Kirby, Adam Beach, Martin Donovan, Roberta Maxwell and Peter Stebbings. The film follows 70-year-old small-town Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser, who takes on a giant corporation after their GMOs interfere with his crops. The film premiered at the 2020 Quebec City Film Festival and it was theatrically released in Canada by Mongrel Media on October 9, 2020. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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