Small-Town Life
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    Movies

    The Village (2004)

    Members (Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody) of a 19th-century community fear the...

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    Movies

    Big Fish (2003)

    A young journalist (Billy Crudup) searches for the truth behind the tall tales told by his ailing...

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    North Country (2005)

    A constant barrage of abuse from her co-workers spurs a miner (Charlize Theron) to file a sexual...

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    Cars (2006)

    A rookie race car (Owen Wilson) that only cares about winning learns what is really important in...

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    Georgia Rule (2007)

    Exasperated with her rebellious daughter (Lindsay Lohan), a woman (Felicity Huffman) sends the teen...

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    30 Days of Night (2007)

    A lawman (Josh Hartnett) and an ever-shrinking band of survivors must fend off hungry vampires who...

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    Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009)

    Miley's father (Billy Ray Cyrus) takes her home for a reality check when the teen's soaring...

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    The Fog (2005)

    Residents (Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, Selma Blair) of a seaside community fall prey to malevolent...

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    Charlotte's Web (2006)

    After learning that a young pig's days are numbered, a literate spider (Julia Roberts) weaves an...

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    A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

    The creator of a long-running radio show conducts business as usual while his guests, cast and crew...

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    Movies

    The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

    A disabled serviceman and two other veterans (Fredric March, Dana Andrews) have difficulty adjusting...

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    Undead (2005)

    Survivors (Felicity Mason, Mungo McKay, Rob Jenkins) band together after a meteor shower transforms...

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    Movies

    Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)

    A '50s-era housewife (Julianne Moore) uses her wit and winnings from commercial jingle contests to...

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    Movies

    Lars and the Real Girl (2007)

    Family and friends are unsure how to react when a lonely young man (Ryan Gosling) forms an emotional...

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    Friday Night Lights (2004)

    A high-school football coach (Billy Bob Thornton) in Odessa, Texas, tries to lead his players (Derek...

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    Slither (2006)

    A small-town sheriff (Nathan Fillion) and his team encounter waves of wormlike alien organisms that...

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    Movies

    Alien Trespass (2009)

    After crash landing near a desert town, an alien enlists the help of a local waitress to re-capture...

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    Movies

    The Love Letter (1999)

    A bookstore manager (Kate Capshaw) in a small town finds an anonymous love letter and searches for...

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    Movies

    A History of Violence (2005)

    Vicious criminals continue to harass a man (Viggo Mortensen) and his wife (Maria Bello) after he...

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    Waitress (2007)

    A pregnant waitress (Keri Russell) is caught between her controlling husband and the new town doctor...

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    New in Town (2009)

    An ambitious executive (Renée Zellweger) has a life-changing experience when she accepts an...

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    Fat Girls (2007)

    A gay teenager (Ash Christian), his best girlfriend (Ashley Fink) and her Cuban boyfriend band...

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    Movies

    Welcome to Mooseport (2004)

    The owner (Ray Romano) of a small-town Maine hardware store runs for mayor against a former...

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    Movies

    Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

    A gawky teenager (Jon Heder) from an odd family (Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell) helps his new friend run...

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    Madison (2005)

    Despite his wife's (Mary McCormack) protest, an Indiana repairman (Jim Caviezel) returns to...

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    Movies

    America's Heart and Soul (2004)

    Filmmaker Louis Schwartzberg examines the beauty of the United States and the spirit of its...

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    Movies

    Phenomenon (1996)

    An amiable, small-town Everyman (John Travolta) is inexplicably transformed into a genius with...

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    Movies

    The Lookout (2007)

    A brain-damaged former athlete (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) finds himself pulled into a heist at the bank...

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    Movies

    Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)

    Residents (Steven Pasquale, Reiko Aylesworth, John Ortiz) of a Colorado town become caught up in a...

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    Departures (2009)

    A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.

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    Movies

    The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain (1995)

    A cartographer (Hugh Grant) maps the terrain of a small village and crosses paths with a local...

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    Dogville (2004)

    On the run from gangsters, a woman (Nicole Kidman) agrees to work for residents of a small town in...

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    Snow Cake (2007)

    A traumatized British ex-convict (Alan Rickman) travels to a small Canadian town to inform a woman...

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    Movies

    Bubble (2006)

    Residents of a small town investigate a murder which took place at a local toy factory.

  • Pleasantville picture
    Movies

    Pleasantville (1998)

    A shy suburban teen and his sister are transported into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV...

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    Movies

    Beautiful Girls (1996)

    The opposite sex preoccupies working-class pals gathered for their high-school reunion in small-town...

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    Movies

    No Looking Back (1998)

    A man (Edward Burns) tries to win back the woman (Lauren Holly) he left three years earlier, now...

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    Movies

    The Basket (2000)

    In the midst of World War I, the people in a small Pacific Northwest town are tired, confused and...

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    Movies

    Kitchen Stories (2004)

    A researcher (Tomas Norstrom) observes a bachelor (Joachim Calmeyer) in his home as part of a study...

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    Movies

    Snow Angels (2008)

    A teen (Michael Angarano) experiences first love while a waitress (Kate Beckinsale) on whom he once...

  • American Teen picture
    Movies

    American Teen (2008)

    Four high-school seniors navigate their way through the ups and downs of life in their small Indiana...

  • Bye Bye Birdie picture
    Movies

    Bye Bye Birdie (1963)

    An Iowa songwriter (Dick Van Dyke) sees his big chance when rock 'n' roll idol Conrad Birdie comes...

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    Movies

    Amarcord (1974)

    Federico Fellini's episodic homage to life in a 1930s Italian seaside village as seen through the...

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    Movies

    Inventing the Abbotts (1997)

    Two brothers from the wrong side of the tracks share complicated relationships with the daughters of...

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    Movies

    Mystery, Alaska (1999)

    The National Hockey League sends the New York Rangers to play a legendary local team in an isolated...

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    Signs (2002)

    With the help of his brother (Joaquin Phoenix), a Pennsylvanian (Mel Gibson) investigates the...

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    Movies

    Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! (2004)

    Secretly in love with his friend (Kate Bosworth), a supermarket manager (Topher Grace) becomes...

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    Movies

    Live Free or Die (2007)

    Hoping to pass himself off as a dangerous outlaw, a small-time crook (Aaron Stanford) takes credit...

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    People

    Kate Amick

    Kate Amick produced TV shows such as Sinking the Lusitania, Warnings From a Small Town, and Life...