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  • Out of Bounds

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    Farm boy Daryl Cage’s parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will have a better life there. After a baggage mixup at the airport, Daryl finds himself in possession of a drug cache, which a ruthless drug dealer wants back. The dealer murders Daryl’s brother and the…

  • Field of Dreams

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    Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice’s directions don’t stop — even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.

  • American Dream

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    When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local labor union decides to go on strike and fight for a wage they believe is fair. But as the work stoppage drags on and the strikers face losing everything, friends…

  • What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

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    Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can’t leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for finding trouble. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair…

  • The Bridges of Madison County

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    Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

  • A Thousand Acres

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    The lives of an Iowa farmer’s three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath them the family’s fertile farm.

  • The Straight Story

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    A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and…

  • The Puppet Masters

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    The Earth is invaded by alien parasites—AKA ‘slugs’—that ride on people’s backs and control their minds.

  • Cedar Rapids

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    A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jobs of his co-workers.

  • Butter

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    An adopted girl discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their Iowa town’s annual contest.

  • Sleeping with the Enemy

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    A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.

  • Christmas in Homestead

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    Jessica is one of the most famous actresses in the world, leading a glamorous – if tabloid worthy – life. But all that is thrown for a loop when she goes on location to shoot a holiday themed film in the Christmas-obsessed town of Homestead, Iowa. While a romance brews between her and Matt, a…