Film· 2020· Drama

Nomadland

by Chloé Zhao

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Nomadland

Nonfiction · 2017

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Chloé Zhao's film adapts Jessica Bruder's reporting on older Americans living in vans and following seasonal work, placing a fictional character among real nomads from the book, who play themselves.

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Nomadland

Based on the 2017 nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, it stars Frances McDormand as a widow who leaves her life in Nevada to drift around the United States in her van. A number of real-life nomads appear as fictionalized versions of themselves, including Linda May, Swankie, and Bob Wells. David Strathairn also stars in a supporting role.

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