TY - SER
KW - salespeoples
KW - farms
KW - activists
KW - natural gas industry
KW - fracking
KW - hazardous waste
KW - pollution
KW - environmentalists
AU - Matt Damon
AU - John Krasinski
AB - In an economically-depressed farm town, a large energy company, represented by Steve Butler (Matt Damon) offers landowners big bucks for the rights to frack the natural gas under their farms. However, Frank Yates (Hal Holbrook), the local high school science teacher, and Dustin Noble (John Krasinski), an eco-activist, rally citizens against the energy company.
C1 - 2010s
C2 - unpublished
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; South Side; South Shore; Station Square
C4 - Environmental; Labor
LA - English
M3 - Screenplay
N1 - Based on a story by Dave Eggers (1970- ).
N2 - In an economically-depressed farm town, a large energy company, represented by Steve Butler (Matt Damon) offers landowners big bucks for the rights to frack the natural gas under their farms. However, Frank Yates (Hal Holbrook), the local high school science teacher, and Dustin Noble (John Krasinski), an eco-activist, rally citizens against the energy company.
PY - 2012
RN - Matt Damon (1970- ) is an actor and screenwriter who won an Academy Award for his first script, co-written with Ben Affleck, <em>Good Will Hunting</em> (1997). John Krasinski (1979- ) is a writer and actor best known for his role in the American version of the television sitcom <em>The Office</em> (2005-13).
TI - Promised Land
ER -