An Iowa family finds adventure, love, and heartbreak when they spend a week at the state fair..


Is it worth your time? If you have a soft spot for pre-code era comfort movies, you’ll dig this. It’s sweet, a little dusty, and doesn't try to reinvent the wheel. If you hate anything that smells like apple pie or earnest, small-town ambition, skip it. You will be bored to tears by the middle. The whole thing hinges ...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

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"Is it worth your time? If you have a soft spot for pre-code era comfort movies, you’ll dig this. It’s sweet, a little dusty, and doesn't try to reinvent the wheel. If you hate anything that smells like apple pie or earnest, small-town ambition, skip it. You will be bored to tears by the middle. The whole thing hinges on a pig named Blue Boy. I’m not kidding. The family is so obsessed with this animal that you’d think he was a human child. Watching the dad fret over the hog’s appetite is weirdly..."

Lucille Ward
Sonya Levien, Paul Green, Henry Wales, Philip Stong, Frank Craven, Julien Josephson
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