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"World-traveling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid and Iowa housewife Francesca Johnson aren't looking to turn their lives upside down. Each is at a point in life where expectations are behind them. Yet four days after they meet, they don't want to lose the love they've found" ... container.
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In the small town of Norway, Iowa, the high school baseball team is led by legendary Coach Jim Van Scoyoc who has won 19 State Championships. But the small town heroes are dealt a series of unexpected blows that threaten to rob them of their 20th championship win. Talk of a school merger gets serious and Coach Scoyoc is fired. He is replaced by his 24-year-old assistant coach, Kent Stock. Failure seems inevitable. Based on the true story of Kent Stock....
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"Professor" Harold Hill is a con man who comes to River City, IA, in the weeks just prior to the 1912 Fourth of July celebration. Persuading the town that the youth of River City is in great danger of being corrupted, Hill convinces them that their need to organization a boy's band, with himself as a leader. Hill promises to teach the kids how to make music by utilizing his revolutionary "Think System." There's only one problem: the professor doesn't...
5) Sugar
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Miguel 'Sugar' Santos is a talented Dominican baseball player who longs to break into the American big league and earn the money needed to support his impoverished family. He is a talented pitcher who might just have what it takes to earn a prized spot on a Major League Baseball team. Before that happens he'll have to prove his worth in the minor leagues. Advancing in baseball's minor league system at the tender age of 19, Miguel is warmly welcomed...
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"Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella is inspired by a voice he can't ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. Supported by his wife Annie, Ray begins the quest by turning his ordinary cornfield into a place where dreams can come true. Along the way he meets reclusive activist Terence Mann, the mysterious 'Doc' Graham and even the legendary 'Shoeless Joe' Jackson"--Container.
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In the heartland of Iowa, five grad school liberals share a house, a left-wing outlook, and Sunday suppers filled with conversation and social criticism. But when a redneck trucker threatens one of their own, he inadvertently puts them on the radical road to serial murder.
8) Cedar Rapids
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A small-town, naive Midwesterner insurance agent must represent his company at a regional insurance convention in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where his mind is blown by the big city experience.
9) The crazies
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After a strange toxin contaminates the water supply in a small town in Iowa, the residents are suddenly turned into bloodthirsty psychopaths. The town sheriff does all he can to make sense of the outbreak, as his wife and two other unaffected people fight for their survival.
11) Cora unashamed
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A town's lone African American woman is surrounded by social isolation and deep-seated racism while working as a housekeeper. Set in rural Iowa in the early 1900s, Cora is confronted with death, abortion and loneliness. Working as a domestic, she lives only for her daughter and the neglected child of her employers.
12) What's up, doc?
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Four red plaid traveling cases -- one of each belonging to a befuddled Iowa musicologist, a strange but bright young woman, a rich matron and a suspicious fellow -- are mixed up at a San Francisco hotel, with hilarious results.
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As the mayor of St. Nicholas, Iowa, Sarah has devoted her entire life to preserving the idyllic village. However, when St. Nick's only doctor dies, the town faces tragedy : a brand new hospital will close, dooming any future progress the area may hope for. Pressured by St. Nick's delightfully stubborn city council of elders, Sarah's only hope lies with her former high school sweetheart, Mike Greiser. Sarah must reluctantly ask Mike to move back to...
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On a June night in 1912, eight people, a mother, an axe-wielding killer in the sleepy town of Villisca, Iowa, murdered father, their four children, and two guest, a case that remains unsolved to this day. One hundred four years later, Caleb and Denny, two friends who share an interest in ghost hunting, along with Jess, the new girl in school who already has a reputation, sneak into the house where the infamous bloodbath occurred in hopes of recording...
15) Winning favor
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"Two small-town friends, who grew up playing basketball together in driveways and local tournaments, find themselves on opposite sides of the court when their high school teams face each other for the state championship title. Learning the importance of friendship, family and community along the way, the boys discover that it takes a lot more than just talent and raw skill to accomplish their goals." -- from container.
16) Butter
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"When long-reigning champion butter sculptor Bob Pickler ... is forced to step down, his zealous wife Laura ... enters the competition herself, to fight for their status as butter royalty. A win seems guaranteed for the poised and studied candidate when a formidable contender emerges: the fresh-faced, effortlessly charismatic 10-year-old Destiny, ... an African-American foster child of local couple Jill and Ethan. Suddenly, it's anybody's game and...
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"One of the most famous actresses in the world heads to the Christmas-obsessed town of Homestead, Iowa, to shoot a holiday-themed movie. She is thrown for a loop when she begins to have feelings for Matt, a local innkeeper and single dad. As she gets a taste of small-town life, she discovers the true meaning of Christmas"--Container.
18) Michael
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Two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with an "angel expert", are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from an old woman that she shares her motel with a real, live archangel named Michael.
19) The crazies
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After a strange toxin contaminates the water supply in a small town in Iowa, the residents are suddenly turned into bloodthirsty psychopaths. The town sheriff does all he can to make sense of the outbreak, as his wife and two other unaffected people fight for their survival.
20) Two ways home
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"A young woman living with bipolar disorder returns to her hometown in rural Iowa to reconnect with her estranged twelve-year-old daughter. Going head to head with her family sets her on a course that tests her sense of self-worth to the limit"--
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