Amber Waves

Amber Waves

98 mins | Drama, TV Movie | March 9, 1980

Two seemingly disparate men experience powerful life lessons when a wheat harvester gives a hitch-hiking male model a ride on what feels to be the worst day of their lives, at the peak of the war in Vietnam. The harvester has just been diagnosed with cancer, but desperately needs to fulfill a reaping contract, while the male model got himself beaten up in a bar, leading to his firing, and stranding in Kansas.

Amber Waves

98 mins | Drama, TV Movie | March 9, 1980

Amber Waves
Two seemingly disparate men experience powerful life lessons when a wheat harvester gives a hitch-hiking male model a ride on what feels to be the worst day of their lives, at the peak of the war in Vietnam. The harvester has just been diagnosed with cancer, but desperately needs to fulfill a reaping contract, while the male model got himself beaten up in a bar, leading to his firing, and stranding in Kansas.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers
Original title Amber Waves
Directors Joseph Sargent
Writers Ken Trevey

Cast

Dennis Weaver

as Elroy 'Bud' Burkhardt

Kurt Russell

as Larry Koenig

Mare Winningham

as Marlene Burkhardt

Fran Brill

as Suze Winter

Wilford Brimley

as Pete Alberts

Rossie Harris

as Dougie Burkhardt

Grainger Hines

as Gregg Burkhardt

Penny Fuller

as Fern Jensen

Eloy Casados

as Dwight Willits

Bill Morey

as Ansel Porter

Michael Talbott

as Tork Torkelson

Robert Weaver

as Russ Hahn