'Milagro Beanfield War' to cap Free Film Festival

FALLBROOK — The delightful and timely comedy “The Milagro Beanfield War,” directed by Robert Redford, will cap off the highly successful Fallbrook Democratic Club’s Election 2008 Summer Film Festival on August 25, third in a series of free, fun-filled afternoons featuring a new high-definition projection system, “popcorn wagon” and beverages.

Based on the novel by John Nichols, “Milagro” (“Miracle”) is set in a tiny magical village in northern New Mexico, where the townspeople unite behind a Chicano handyman who decides to irrigate his small beanfield by “borrowing” water, rightfully his, from...