Our Daily Bread

Our Daily Bread

We live! We love! We fight! We hate! What don't we do for - OUR DAILY BREAD

Directed by King Vidor

Produced by Viking Productions, United Artists

193480 min6.7 / 10

A Depression-era drama about ordinary people building community through collective labor and mutual aid, balancing hardship with idealistic hope.

John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.

Questions people ask

  • Does Our Daily Bread end with hope? Yes. More hopeful than 85% of films.

  • Is Our Daily Bread easy watching? Somewhat. More comforting than 71% of films.

  • Is Our Daily Bread violent? Not especially. Less violent than 64% of films.

  • Is Our Daily Bread scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 58% of films.

  • Is Our Daily Bread sad? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

51/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Familiar shape, done well.

Rarity74

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise30

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love55

How much audiences actually like it

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Ensemble

Like Our Daily Bread

Nearest across the full emotional profile.

Same Mood as Our Daily Bread

Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.

Like Our Daily Bread, But Darker

Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

Like Our Daily Bread, But Lighter

Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

Like Our Daily Bread, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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