Butter

A chemist and his assistant make a groundbreaking discovery. They manage to make butter directly from pasture grass without having to deal with either...

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...

State of Bacon tells the kinda real but mostly fake tale of an oddball group of characters leading up to the annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival. Bacon-...

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

A convenience store clerk meets a man with a strange obsession with butter.

The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.

A womanizing night club singer who has his pick of many beautiful showgirls tries to climb socially and break into society but soon discovers the soci...

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 Midw...

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.

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...

What strange forces saved one isolated section along the Upper Mississippi River from the repeated crushing and scouring effects of glaciers during th...

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 direct...

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 lea...

A woman returns to her hometown for her father's funeral. A couple strike a deal with her to help her fund the funeral service.