The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy.
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence.
An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand for a pay raise.
Alexis is on top of the world until a tragic accident dashes her hopes and dreams of becoming a world-class figure skater. Only with the help of those who love her can she prove to the world — and herself — that she still has the potential to realize her dreams.
Jewell and Gil are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gil has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but Jewell decides to fight for her family.
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 small town boy ends up all alone in the big city, being pursued by both the drug dealer and the police, who suspect him of the murder.
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.
Laura Burneyová (Julia Robertsová) si zmenila meno, zmenila svoj výzor, a to všetko z jedného dôvodu - aby sa zachránila pred najnebezpečnejším mužom, ktorého pozná. Pred svojím manželom Martinom (Patrick Bergin). Úspešný finančný poradca Martin je totiž despotický žiarlivec, psychopatický brutálny tyran a chorobný puntičkár. Neváhal svoju ženu biť hoci len pre - podľa neho - nesprávne zložené uteráky. Laura žila v ustavičnom strachu pred jeho výbuchmi, slovným i fyzickým týraním. Podarí sa jej uniknúť pred tyranom?
The solo actor in Shimmer tells the story by becoming each character in turn. The play takes place in 1956, in a harsh Midwestern juvenile detention center, where two boys befriend each other.
Gilbert Grape nie je z tých, čo by nemal do čoho pichnúť. Aj keď Endora je miesto, kde sa toho veľa nedeje. Jediný raz, čo mestečko navštívila polícia, bolo vtedy, keď sa Gilbertov retardovaný brat Ernie pokúsil vyškriabať na neďalekú vodnú vežu. Dávať pozor na brata je hlavnou úlohu Gilberta, čo vie byť pekne otravné. Najmä, ak Gilbert okrem toho pracuje v obchode. Potom ale Gilbertovi skríži cestu niekto, kto ho nenecháva ľahostajným. Becky so svojou starou mamou začnú mať problémy s autom práve vo chvíli, keď prechádzajú cez Endoru. Becky je krásna a Gilbert sa práve zaľúbil. Nájsť si však čas pre svoj vlastný život sa zdá byť pre Gilberta nemožné...
The Earth is invaded by alien parasites—AKA 'slugs'—that ride on people's backs and control their minds.
On his family's farm in rural Iowa, young Jack Gudmanson is wrestling with his sexual identity, not an easy thing to do in the macho world of the Midwest. But things become clearer for him when he discovers via a rusty old lunch box filled with gay magazines that his father, killed in Vietnam, led a double life down on the farm. But as liberating as the discovery is for Jack, it is painful for his grandfather and mother, who have tried for years to keep it a family secret. Now Jack must decide whether to share this new information with his younger sister or allow it to remain buried a while longer.
Na farme Johnsonovcov sa stretnú súrodenci Caroline a Michael, aby v spoločnosti právnika vybavili pozostalosť po ich matke. Prekvapí ich jej posledná vôľa, podľa ktorej si žiada, aby bola spopolnená a jej popol bol rozprášený z neďalekého Rosemanovho mosta. Potom však medzi vecami po matke objavia závet akéhosi Roberta Kincaida, kde si želá, aby bol jeho popol rozprášený z toho istého miesta, vzápätí sa z matkinho listu dozvedia o jej krátkom milostnom vzťahu s Robertom. Súrodenci, šokovaní týmto zistením, začnú čítať jej denník. Všetko sa odohralo v roku 1965, kedy Francesca zostala na farme sama, pretože Caroline, Michael a ich otec odcestovali na niekoľko dní na výročný trh do Illinois...
Táto rodinná dráma s motívmi z Kráľa Leara sa začína, keď sa tvrdohlavý a neústupný otec, ktorý už dávno ovdovel, rozhodne odovzdať farmu, na ktorej sa roky upracoval k smrti, svojim trom dcéram. Čoskoro však vyjdú na povrch trpké tajomstvá, ako aj nevraživosť, ktorú sestry pred sebou dlho a starostlivo skrývali. Kedysi najlepšie a najbližšie priateľky sa s vyhliadkou na získanie bohatstva stanú najzúrivejšími rivalkami. Je to čas, keď slovo rodina stráca svoj význam a keď sa aj slová morálka a ľudskosť stávajú prázdnymi pojmami.
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 no driver's license. Then he hits on the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.
Denese Joy Becker, a manicurist living in Iowa, discovers she is indeed Dominga Sic Ruiz, a survivor from a 1982 Guatemalan massacre, when more than 200 people were killed in the small village of Rio Negro, after opposing the construction of a dam, sponsored by World Bank. She then tries to unveil the truth.
King Corn is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden, heavily-subsidized commodity dominates the food pyramid from top to bottom – corn. Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naiveté, two college buddies return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa to figure out how a modest kernel conquered America. With the help of some real farmers, oodles of fertilizer and government aide, and some genetically modified seeds, the friends manage to grow one acre of corn. Along the way, they unlock the hilarious absurdities and scary but hidden truths about America’s modern food system in this engrossing and eye-opening documentary.
The true story of Bill Sackter's emergence from lifelong institutionalization, to become an international hero for people with disabilities.
Professor David Salt's guilty secrets draw him to the fabled town of Villisca. Past and present collide as he is driven to help the trapped spirits and seek his own redemption.