Reverend Brooks leads his small Iowa town in a contest to stop smoking for a month. But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will win a huge prize.

Saints Rest

2018

English

5.4

♡ 9

sister sister relationship

Noga Ashkenazi Director

Dana Ivgy as Danny

Jon Richardson as Jon

Devin Landin as Scott

Kristen Trimm as Sisters' Mom

A musical drama set in small-town Iowa, SAINTS REST tells the story of two estranged sisters, who over the course of one summer, form a connection through their shared love of music, as they grieve the recent death of their mother.

Marriage of Lies

2016

English

5.0

♡ 7

30%

Danny J. Boyle Director

Corin Nemec as Gus

John Griffin as Jack

Virginia Williams as Jessica

April Bowlby as Rachel Wilson

When Rachel’s husband disappears, the police have one suspect: her. While trying to prove her innocence, she uncovers many secrets about the man she married.

Two Ways Home

2019

English

8.0

♡ 3

99%

Ron Vignone Director

Rylie Behr as Cori

Tanna Frederick as Kathy

Kathleen Douglass as Leah

Tom Bower as Walter

Soul-touching and moving, TWO WAYS HOME compassionately follows Kathy (Tanna Frederick), a woman newly diagnosed with bipolar disorder who is released from prison on good behavior and returns to her country home in Iowa to reconnect with her estranged 12-year-old daughter (Rylie Behr) and her cantankerous elderly grandfather (Tom Bower). Her return home is turbulent and a rough, unwelcome transition in which Kathy must come to terms with her diagnosis and its implications on her identity, while also realizing that her family was happier when she was gone. Conflict with her family intensifies as she struggles to keep her head above water, putting her self-worth and well-being to the ultimate test.

The Puppet Masters

1994

English

5.9

♡ 12

29%

33%

Action

based on novel or book

Stuart Orme Director

Keith David as Alex Holland

Bruce Jarchow as Barnes

Will Patton as Dr. Graves

Marshall Bell as General Morgan

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

Ice Castles

1978

English

6.6

♡ 5

44%

Donald Wrye Director

Joel Thingvall as Arena Spectator

David Huffman as Brian Dockett

Tom Skerritt as Marcus Winston Rio

Rio as (uncredited)

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.

King Corn

2007

English

7.0

♡ 1

96%

Aaron Woolf Director

Ken Cook as Self - Environmental Working Group

Walter Willett as Self - Harvard University

Allen Trenkle as Self - Iowa State University

Michael Pollan as Self - University of California

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.

Cedar Rapids

2011

English

6.3

♡ 7

86%

Miguel Arteta Director

John C. Reilly as Dean Ziegler

Sigourney Weaver as Macy Vanderhei

Mike O'Malley as Mike Pyle

Seth Morris as Uncle Ken

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

Sleeping with the Enemy

1991

English

6.3

♡ 64

24%

Joseph Ruben Director

Claudette Nevins as Dr. Rissner

Kyle Secor as Fleishman

Marita Geraghty as Julie

Julia Roberts as Laura Burney

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.

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

1993

English

7.7

♡ 157

90%

89%

Action

based on novel or book

Lasse Hallström Director

Leonardo DiCaprio as Arnie Grape

Crispin Glover as Bobby McBurney

Johnny Depp as Gilbert Grape

John C. Reilly as Tucker Van Dyke

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 with local woman Betty Carver, Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky.

Butter

2011

English

♡ 18

35%

Jim Field Smith Director

Hugh Jackman as Boyd Bolton

Alicia Silverstone as Jill

Jennifer Garner as Laura Pickler

Andrew Daly as Radio Announcer

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.

The Straight Story

1999

English

8.0

♡ 64

95%

91%

Action

based on a true story

David Lynch Director

Jeremy Kent Jackson as Andy

Harry Dean Stanton as Lyle

Sissy Spacek as Rose

Everett McGill as Tom the John Deere Dealer

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.

American Dream

1990

English

7.8

♡ 4

100%

Barbara Kopple Director

Ronald Reagan as Self

Jesse Jackson as Self

Dan Rather as Self

Richard Knowlton as Self - President Hormel & CO.

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 become enemies, families are divided and the very future of this typical mid American town is threatened.

The Pajama Game

1957

English

6.6

♡ 4

87%

63%

Action

based on novel or book

based on play or musical

Stanley Donen Director

Doris Day as Babe Williams

Reta Shaw as Mabel

John Raitt as Sid Sorokin

Eddie Foy Jr. as Vernon Hines

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.