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Amber Waves
Film / 1980

Amber Waves

Directed by Joseph Sargent
TV movieDrama

★ 8.5/10Audience rating

A drifter stranded in Kansas accepts a job offer from a wheat harvester who, in desperation over his cancer and financial woes, attempts suicide but becomes a father-figure to the young man.

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A drifter stranded in Kansas accepts a job offer from a wheat harvester who, in desperation over his cancer and financial woes, attempts suicide but becomes a father-figure to the young man.

Cast

Dennis WeaverElroy 'Bud' Burkhardt Kurt RussellLarry Koenig Mare WinninghamMarlene Burkhardt Fran BrillSuze Winter Wilford BrimleyPete Alberts Rossie HarrisDougie Burkhardt Grainger HinesGregg Burkhardt Penny FullerFern Jensen Eloy CasadosDwight Willits Bill MoreyAnsel Porter Michael TalbottTork Torkelson Robert WeaverRuss Hahn
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Ted Dykstra Jack Goth Kaye Grieve Lucetta Jenison Cathryn Johnston Les Kimber Don MacKay Margaret Martin Walter Massey Murray Ord Ted Stidder Dale Wilson Jane Wilson Tony Whibley James Ralph

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