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9 month bump.
Unlikely, but there are a few elements shared with your description and the miniseries Centennial, in which the family of Nacho the cook moves to town from Mexico and is hired by "Potatoes" Brumbaugh (played by Alex Karras) to work on his farm.
Thanks but no.
That kind of sounds like the short story The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez. I don't know if it ever got a film, though.
Doesn't sound familiar, but I would suggest you check Wikipedia's list of movies and TV programs Brian Dennehy was in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Dennehy
It sounds similar to 'The Young Loner', but I don't recall much else about it, so might not be what you're looking for.
A movie or Made for TV movie about a hispanic(?) migrant worker teen, who moves around with his family as the crops are needed to be picked and such. A white man takes a liking to him and tries to help him improve himself & get out of that life; but I think at the end of the film the white man goes to the teen's place and discovers that the family has moved away.
I think the white man was played by Brian Dennehy. At one point he has a monologue about how he escaped his own family destiny of working in the mines all his life like his father & father's father, etc.