Dewey791 Settings of U. S. Motion Pictures - States A - M from Inquiry Unlimited practitioner formerly sited at Boston KidWeb at Joseph Lee School, Boston, MA

2003 - A Painted House. (98 minutes) Director: Alfonso Arau. Cast: Scott Glenn, Arija Bareikis, Robert Sean Leonard, Melinda Dillon, and Logan Lerman. Summary: This John Grisham book adapted to film is told through the voice of 10-year-old Arkansan Luke Chandler about the summer of 1952 when two groups of migrant works, the Mexicans and the hillbillies, come looking for work on the Chandler's cotton farm. Two dangerous men meet. A murder occurs in town. A fatherless baby is born. Someone is secretly painting the Chandler farmhouse. [ARKANSAS; MICHIGAN] CALIFORNIA
- 2005 - Coach Carter. (136 minutes) Director: Thomas Carter. Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Ri'chard, Rob Brown, Ashanti, Debbi Morgan. Summary: Based on the true story of California high school basketball coach, Ken Carter, who turned his team around by stressing studying and athleticism. [California] COLORADO
  - 2002 - By Dawn's Early Light. (104 minutes) Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman. Cast: Richard Crenna, David Carradine, Chris Olivero. Summary: A Los Angeles teenager spends a portion of his summer vacation with his Colorado cattleman grandfather whom he has not seen for many years when his wealthy parents go on a cruise. Having nothing in common with his grandson who wants to go home to California, the grandfather goes on an 800 mile journey across the Colorado Mountains to the Pacific Ocean on horseback broadening his self-centered and materialistic grandson's physical, emotional, and civic behaviors. [COLORADO; CALIFORNIA] CONNECTICUT
    
    - Murder in a Small Town. (100 minutes) Director: Joyce Chopra. Cast: Gene Wilder, Mike Starr, Cherry Jones, Frances Conroy.
    
    1931 - Connecticut Yankee. (96 minutes) Director: David Butler. Cast: Will Rogers, William Farnum, Frank Albertson, Maureen O'Sullivan, Myrna Loy. Summary: Based on Mark Twain's 1889 fantasy of a man transported to the times of King Arthur.
    1933 - Dr. Bull. Director: John Ford. Cast: Will Rogers, Vera Allen. Summary: New Winton, Connecticut.
    1936 - Theodora Goes Wild. (94 minutes) Director: Richard Boleslawski. Cast: Irene Dunne, Thomas Mitchell, Melvyn Doublas. Summary: In Lynnfield, CT. [based on a Mary McCarthy short story]
    1938 - Bringing Up Baby. (102 minutes) Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Charlie Ruggles, May Robson. Summary: An absent-minded museum professor, about to be married, hopes to received one million dollars from a philanthropist. While he awaits the arrival of a missing dinosaur bone from an archaeological dig, he meets a rich girl with a leopard who gets both of them into comical situations. [NEW YORK/CONNECTICUT]
    1945 - Christmas in Connecticut. (101 minutes) Director: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Reginald Gardiner, Sydney Greenstreet. Summary: For publicity, a family-advice columnist arranges a phony family for herself.
    1946 - The Stranger. (95 minutes) Director: Orson Welles. Cast: Orson Welles, Konstantin Shayne, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Richard Long, Philip Merivale, Byran Keith, Billy House. Summary: After World War II, a Nazi war criminal settles in the college town of Harper, Connecticut, assumes a new identity, and when the film begins, marries. Another war criminal tracks him down and suffers at his hand. Covering up his deeds becomes necessary when a government agent tracks him down.
    1947 - Gentleman's Agreement. (118 minutes) 20th Century-Fox. Director: Elia Kazan. Screenplay: Moss Hart, from the novel by Laura Z. Hobson. Cast: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere, Jane Wyatt, Dean Stockwell, Sam Jaffe. [CONNECTICUT](Jewish Experience)
    1948 - Winter Meeting. (115 minutes) Director: Bretaigne Windust. Cast: Bette Davis, Jim Davis, Janis Paige, John Hoyt, Florence Bates. Music: Max Steiner Summary: A spinsterish writer falls in love with a World War II hero who reciprocates but reveals that he desires to become a priest. [NEW YORK; CONNECTICUT]
    1949 - Come to the Stable. Director: Henry Koster. Cast: Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez. Summary: Two sisters come to Connecticut with the dreams of building a children's hospital to fulfill a promise made to God for saving a hospital from being destroyed during World War II. [CONNECTICUT]
    1955 - All That Heaven Allows. (89 minutes) Director: Douglas Sirk. Cast: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Morehead. Summary: A suburban widow is courted by a young gardener.
    1968 - Rachel, Rachel. (101 minutes) Director: Paul Newman. Cast: Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington, Estelle Parsons.
    1988 - Beetlejuice. (93 minutes) Director: Tim Burton. Cast: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Jeffrey Jones, Chatherine O'Hara, Winona Ryder. Summary: A family moves into the Connecticut farmhouse of a couple who accidently drowned but returned to their farmhouse as novice ghosts and upon aesthetically destroying the house force the ghosts to call upon the evil Betelgeuse for help.
    1988 - Courage of Sarah Noble. (49 minutes) [Alice Dalgliesh book]
    1988 - Mystic Pizza. (101 minutes) Director: Donald Petrie. Cast: Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, William R. Moses. Summary: Coming-of-age picture focusing on three women, two sisters and a friend, who work at a pizza parlour in the resort town of Mystic, Connecticut.
    1989 - Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. (95 minutes) Cast: Keshia Knight Pulliam, Jean Marsh, Emma Samms. Summary: Based on Mark Twain's 1889 fantasy of a man transported to the times of King Arthur.
    1989 - Jacknife. (102 minutes) Director: David Jones. Cast: Robert De Niro, Ed Harris, Kathy Baker. Summary: A veteran living with his biology-teacher sister in Connecticut suffers from post-Vietnam stress syndrome and is helped by a Vietnam buddy to face his war experiences and the death of a buddy.
    1992 - Christmas in Connecticut. (93 minutes) Director: Arnold Schwarzenegger. Cast: Dyan Cannon, Kris Kristofferson, Tony Curtis, Richard Roundtree. Summary: For publicity, a family-advice columnist arranges a phony family for herself.
    1996 - Homecoming. (105 minutes) Director: Mark Jean. Cast: Anne Bancroft, Kimberlee Peterson, Trever O'Brien, Hanna Hall, William Greenblatt, Bonnie Bedelia.
    1996 - White Squall. (127 minutes) Director: Ridley Scott. Cast: Jeff Bridges, Caroline Goodall, Scott Wolf, John Savage, Balthazar Getty. Summary: Told from the point of view of a Connecticut senior who along with twelve other high school students, has elected to spend the 1960-61 academic year on board the American schoolship Albatross sailing around the world as they learned about sailing and unity from their captain. They mature personally and test their courage and survival skills when they unexpectedly meet a white squall, a sudden, violent, wind-and-lightning storm. [CONNECTICUT]
    1999 - Amistad. (152 minutes) Director: Steven Spielberg. Cast: Djimon Hounsou, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne, Stellan Skarsgard, Matthew McConaughey, Anna Paquin, David Paymer. Summary: Cinque and other recent African Bozal captives aboard the Amistad, traveling from one side of Cuba to the other, mutiny, kill the captain, and attempt to sail back to Africa, but end up washing ashore in Connecticut and later being on trial represented by John Quincy Adams. Were they slaves or not? Are they murderers or merely defending themselves?
    1999 - Outside Providence. Cast: Shawn Hatosy. Summary: A blue-collar teenage boy is sent to a prep school in Connecticut and struggles to fit in after a run-in with the local police sent him there. DELAWARE
    
    1999 - The Crossing. (100 minutes) Cast: Jeff Daniels. Focuses on Washington's crossing of the Delaware River in December, 1776. [based on a Howard Fast novel]
    FLORIDA
    
    1934 - It Happened One Night. (105 minutes) Director: Frank Capra. Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Ward Bond. Summary: A reporter follows a runaway heiress to Florida from New York and falls in love with her.
    1946 - The Yearling. (134 minutes) Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman. Summary: A young boy loves a pet fawn that his father must kill. [based on the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings novel]
    1948 - Key Largo. (101 minutes) Director: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Claire Trevor, Lionel Barrymore. Summary: Hoodlums running from the law hold hostages with a variety of experiences in a run-down hotel in the Florida Keys.
    1960 - Where the Boys Are. (99 minutes) Director: Henry Levin. Cast: Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Paula Prentiss, Jim Hutton, Yvette Mimieux, Connie Francis. Summary: The college students' annual spring break/Easter pilgrimage to Fort Lauderdale, Florida seeking instant gratification through sex and fun. [FLORIDA]
    1974 - The Longest Yard. ("The Mean Machine") (122 minutes) Director: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad. Summary: A warden wants his prison guard semi-pro football team to play against a prisoner team and asks a former quarterback prisoner to set up and coach the prisoner team.
    1977 - Black Sunday. (minutes) Director: John Frankenheimer: Cast: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern. Summary: An Arabic terrorist group plans to kill the President of the United States and spectators at a Super Bowl game at Miami's Orange Bowl.
    1981 - Body Heat. (113 minutes) Director: Lawrence Kasdan. Cast: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson, Mickey Rourke. Summary: A Florida attorney is maneuvered by the wife of a wealthy and dishonest businessman with whom he is having an affair to kill her husband. [FLORIDA]
    1983 - Cross Creek. (122 minutes) Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Alfre Woodard, Peter Coyote. Summary: Focuses on the life of author, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
    1984 - Flash of Green. (118 minutes) Director: Victor Nunez. Cast: Ed Harris. Summary: A bored Florida reporter helps a county official get approved for a housing project. [based on a John D. MacDonald novel]
    1985 - Stick. (109 minutes) Director: Burt Reynolds. Cast: Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, George Segal, Candice Bergen. Summary: An ex-convict seeks revenge against the drug underworld in South Florida.
    1988 - Running on Empty. (116 minutes) Director: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch, River Phoenix, Martha Plimpton. Summary: Picks up with the life fourteen years later in Florida and then New Jersey of a married couple who wanted to make a difference by being involved in a 1970s bombing of a napalm lab at the University of Massachusetts, who had to go undercover moving from state to state but were being pursued by the FBI, and shows the effects of not planting roots in the lives of their two sons from constant moving, change of identities, lack of extended family. Acceptance of one son to Juilliard School of Music changes their lives.
    1992 - Cocoon. (117 minutes) Director: Ron Howard. Cast: Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon. [senior citizens in a Florida old age home get a chance to be forever young]
    1992 - Crisscross. (100 minutes) Director: Chris Menges. Cast: Goldie Hawn, David Arnott, Arliss Howard, Keith Carradine. Summary: A 12-year old boy in 1969 Florida finds out the secret about his mother's nighttime job.
    1994 - Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. (85 minutes) Director: Tom Shadyac. Cast: Jim Carrey, Sean Young, Courteney Cox, Tone Loc, Dan Marino. Summary: A Florida detective cracks missing animal cases and focuses on the missing mascot for the Miami Dolphins and their quarterback prior to the Super Bowl.
    1994 - The Yearling. Cast: Peter Strauss, Jean Smart. Summary: A young boy loves a pet fawn that his father must kill. [based on the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings novel]
    1996 - The Birdcage. (La Cage aux Folles) (118 minutes) Director: Mike Nichols. Cast: Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest, Christine Baranski. Summary: A straight son plans to marry a senator's daughter and brings her and his future in-laws for a visit to gay parents who pretend to be straight to fool the senator.
    1996 - Rosewood. (140 minutes) Director: John Singleton. Cast: Jon Voight, Esther Rolle. Summary: In 1923, when a white woman in Sumner, Florida claims to have been beaten by a black man, the community organizes a lynching party against the residents of Rosewood, Florida, a black community.
    1996 - Up Close & Personal. (124 minutes) Director: Jon Avnet. Cast: Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stockard Channing, Joe Mantegna, Kate Nelligan, Glenn Plummer. Summary: Based on the life of newsperson Jessica Savitch's rise in television from Miami, Florida to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and her mentor/husband. [FLORIDA/PENNSYLVANIA]
    1997 - Chessie, the Travelin' Man. (25 minutes)
    1997 - Gone Fishin'. (94 minutes) Director: Christopher Cain. Cast: Joe Pesci, Danny Glover, Rosanna Arquette, Lynn Whitfield. Summary: Two Newark close friends-from-childhood experience adventures that could rarely happen to anybody else on their annual fishing trip prior to Thanksgiving . . this year in Florida. [FLORIDA/NEW JERSEY]
    1997 - Ulee's Gold. (113 minutes) Director: Victor Nunez. Cast: Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson. Summary: When his family needs his help, an aging Florida beekeeper comes out of his emotional shell.
    1999 - Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story. (93 minutes) Director: John Korty. Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Ed Marinaro, John Bourgeois, Dan MacDonald, Elden Henson. Summary: True story of a 17-year-old prospective high school football player who must decide whether his ailing grandmother will receive one of his kidneys.
    2000 - Snow Dogs. (99 minutes) Director: Brian Levant. Cast: Cuba Gooding, Jr., James Coburn, Joanna Bacalso, Nichelle Nichols, M. Emmet Walsh. Summary: When a Miami dentist inherits an Alaskan sled dog team, he goes to Alaska, finds friction with a local man who wants that team, and participates in a sled dog race. [ALASKA/FLORIDA]
    2006 - In Her Shoes. (130 minutes) Director: Curtis Hanson. Cast: Cameron Diaz, Anson Mount, Toni Collette, Richard Burgi, Candice Azzara, Brooke Smith, John Mastrangelo, Sr., Emilio Mignucci, Mark Feuerstein. Summary: Free-wheeling irresponsible Maggie gets through her life thanks to her remarkable looks and her complete lack of scruples. She constantly goes to her straight-laced, plain-Jane successful lawyer sister Rose when she is in need of financial help. The two sisters have been very close to each other in part because their troubled mother died when they were girls. Maggie discovers hidden letters that reveal she and Rose have a grandmother, but Maggie ends up betraying Rose's trust. Maggie sets off for Florida to find the grandmother. A failed workplace romance forces Rose to rethink her career, a career that has been the center of her life. As Rose tentatively begins a new relationship and Maggie gets to know her grandmother, the two learn a dark family secret that helps smooth the path toward reconciliation.
    GEORGIA
    
    1933 - Emperor Jones. (73 minutes) Director: Dudley Murphy. Cast: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank Wilson, Fredi Washington. Summary: A Georgia Pullman porter kills a man, is sent to a chain gang, escapes to a Caribbean island on a ship, and becomes emperor of the island only to be deposed and killed. [GEORGIA]
    1939 - Gone With the Wind. (222 minutes) Director: Victor Fleming. Cast: Clark Cable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Haviland, Thomas Mitchell, Hattie McDaniel. Summary: The life and loves of Scarlett O'Hara beginning on her family's plantation in Georgia, Tara, in antebellum days, through the Civil War, and Reconstruction. [based on the Margaret Mitchell novel] [GEORGIA]
    1950 - The Jackie Robinson Story. (76 minutes) Director: Alfred E. Green. Cast: Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Minor Watson, Louise Beavers. Summary: Autobiography of Georgia-born and California-raised Jack Roosevelt Robinson who broke the color barrier in baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 under the mentorship of Branch Rickey. [CALIFORNIA/GEORGIA]
    1953 - Member of the Wedding. (91 minutes) Director: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Julie Harris, Ethel Waters, Brandon de Wilde. Summary: A 12-year old Georgian girl accompanies her brother and sister-in-law on their honeymoon. [GEORGIA]
    1955 - Queen Bee. (95 minutes) Director: Ranald MacDougall. Cast: Joan Crawford, Barry Sullivan, Betsy Palmer, John Ireland, Lucy Marlow. Summary: A woman arrives in Atlanta to visit her female cousin. Her cousin's brother is married to an overly charming, controlling woman. Conflict arises. [GEORGIA]
    1958 - God's Little Acre. (110 minutes) Director: Anthony Mann. Cast: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Tina Louise, Jack Lord, Fay Spain, Buddy Hackett, Michael Landon. Summary: Focuses on the experiences of an itinerant poor Georgian farmer. [based on an Erskine Caldwell novel] [GEORGIA]
    1970 - The Andersonville Trial. (150 minutes) Director: George C. Scott. Cast: Martin Sheen, William Shatner, Buddy Ebsen, Richard Basehart, Cameron Mitchell, Jack Cassidy. Summary: What really went on at the Confederate Andersonville prison during the Civil War? [GEORGIA]
    1972 - Deliverance. (109 minutes) Director: John Boorman. Cast: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, James Dickey. Summary: In Georgia, a weekend canoe trip of men friends down a dangerous river that begins as a holiday, turns into a horrific experience. [GEORGIA]
    1976 - Displaced Person. (58 minutes) Director: Glenn Jordan. Cast: John Houseman, Irene Worth, Shirley Stoler. Summary: A 1940s Polish refugee and his family try to fit onto a Georgia farm. [GEORGIA]
    1985 - Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom. Cast: Melba Moore, Ned Beatty. [GEORGIA]
    1985 - The Color Purple. (130 minutes) Director: Steven Spielberg. Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey. Summary: The growth of a mistreated black woman from 1909 - 1947. [based on the Alice Walker novel] [GEORGIA]
    1985 - The Slugger's Wife. (105 minutes) Director: Hal Ashby. Cast: Michael O'Keefe, Rebecca DeMornay, Martin Ritt, Randy Quaid, Cleavant Derricks. Summary: An Atlanta Braves baseball player pursues and marries an up-and-coming rock star and does not give her any space to be herself causing her to follow her career. [GEORGIA]
    1986 - As Summers Die. (87 minutes) Director: Jean-Claude Tramont. Cast: Scott Glenn, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bette Davis, Beah Richards. Summary: In 1959, Georgia, an oil land dispute surfaces with a black woman. [GEORGIA]
    1990 - Sudie and Simpson. (95 minutes) Director: Joan Tewkesbury. Cast: Lou Gossett, Jr., Sara Gilbert, Frances Fisher, John Jackson. Summary: A lesson in understanding and prejudice in a 1940s Georgia town as we follow the lives of Simpson and Sudie. [GEORGIA]
    1991 - Decoration Day. (81 minutes) Director: Robert Markowitz. Cast: James Garner, Judith Ivey, Bill Cobbs, Ruby Dee, Laurence Fishburne. Summary: A recently widowed and retired Georgian judge gets involved in the lives of the son of his boyhood friend and his boyhood friend who refuses to accept the Congressional Medal of Honor for WWII bravery after 30 years. [based on a John William Corrington novel] [GEORGIA]
    1991 - Biography: Jackie Robinson. (50 minutes) Director: Maurice Paleau. Documentary: Features the memories of Rachel Imus Robinson of her life with Georgia-born and California-raised Jack Roosevelt Robinson who broke the color barrier in baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 under the mentorship of Branch Rickey. [CALIFORNIA/GEORGIA]
    1992 - Daughters of the Dust. (113 minutes) Director: Julie Dash. Cast: Adisa Anderson, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Cora Lee Day. Summary: In 1902 on one of the sea islands off Georgia and North Carolina, a ceremony is taking place before an African-American family moves North. [GEORGIA]
    1992 - A League of Their Own. (118 minutes) Director: Penny Marshall. Cast: Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna, Lori Petty, Jon Lovitz, David Strathairn, Garry Marshall, Rosie O'Donnell, Tracy Reiner, Bill Pullman. Summary: The first women's professional baseball league during World War II with a focus on two sisters on the same team. [GEORGIA]
    1994 - Justice in a Small Town. Cast: Kate Jackson, John Shea. Summary: True story of two civil servants who reveal corruption in the Georgia Department of Labor. [GEORGIA]
    1996 - Andersonville. (168 minutes) Director: John Frankenheimer. Cast: Jarrod Emrick, Frederic Forrest, William H. Macy, Jan Triska, Ted Marcoux. Summary: A focus on August, 1864 in Andersonville, Georgia. [GEORGIA]
    1997 - What the Deaf Man Heard. (98 minutes) Director: John Kent Harrison. Cast: Matthew Modine, James Earl Jones, Bernadette Peters, Tom Skerrit, Judith Ivey. Summary: A young boy traveling with his single-parent mother is abandoned on a bus bound for a Georgia town when his mother is abducted and killed at a bus rest stop. He reaches Barrington, at the end of the line, and blocks himself off from the world by feigning deafness and speech for twenty years until something he hears forces him to speak. [GEORGIA]
    2000 - The Gift. (111 minutes) Director: Sam Raimi. Cast: Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves, Greg Kinnear, Hilary Swank, Giovanni Ribisi. Summary: A recently widowed psychic of three sons in the South uses her visions to convict the wrong killer. [ALABAMA or GEORGIA]
    2000 - The Runaway. (98 minutes) Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman. Cast: Dean Cain, Duane McLachlin, Cody Newton, Maya Angelou. Summary: A conjure woman predicts that two boys - - one white and one black - - will bring "change" in rural Georgia during the 1940s.
    HAWAII
    
    1940 - It's A Date. (103 minutes) Director: William A. Seiter. Cast: Deanna Durbin, Walter Pidgeon, Kay Francis, Eugene Pallette. Summary: A teenage woman competes for the love of a man against her mother. [HAWAII]
    1942 - Song of the Islands. (75 minutes) Director: Walter Lang. Cast: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jack Oakie, Thomas Mitchell, Hilo Hattie. Summary: The daughter of an Irish beachcomber living on a tiny Hawaiian island returns after three years at school, performs for guests at a celebratory luau. A handsome playboy whose father owns a cattle ranch on the island falls in love with her, thinking she is a native girl. Wanting to own the property of the beachcomber brings conflict to the cattle rancher. [HAWAII]
    1953 - From Here to Eternity. (118 minutes) Director: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine. Summary: The demands of military life just prior to entrance of the United States into World War II. [HAWAII]
    1960 - Strangers When We Meet. (117 minutes) Director: Richard Quine. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Barbara Rush, Ernie Kovacs. Summary: Unhappily married Larry Coe, a gifted architect, falls in love with his beautiful neighbor Maggie, whose marriage is also on the rocks. Will their passion end when Coe moves his family to Hawaii, working for a building commission? [HAWAII]
    1963 - Diamond Head. (107 minutes) Director: Guy Green Cast: Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, George Chakiris, France Nuyen, James Darren. Summary: A Hawaiian plantation boss almost ruins his family as we study a mixed-blood romance between a Caucasian and a Hawaiian. [HAWAII]
    1965 - In Harm's Way. (167 minutes) Director: Otto Preminger. Cast: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Paula Prentiss, Henry Fonda, Tom Tryon, Brandon de Wilde, Dana Andrews. Summary: The United States Navy combats the Japanese during World War II. [HAWAII]
    1966 - Hawaii. Director: George Roy Hill. Cast: Julie Andrews, Max Von Sydow, Richard Harris. Summary: Contact of the natives of 1820s Hawaii with Christian westerners and their cultures. [HAWAII]
    1970 - Tora! Tora! Tora!. (144 minutes) Director: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, James Whitmore, Jason Robards. Summary: A collaborative effort of the U.S. and Japan to explain the events up to and including the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941. [HAWAII]
    1987 - Blue Hawaii. (101 minutes) Director: Norman Taurog. Cast: Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Angela Lansbury, Iris Adrian. Summary: A returning U. S. soldier works with tourists in Hawaii. [HAWAII]
    1991 - December 7th: The Movie. (82 minutes) Director: John Ford, Greg Toland. Cast: Walter Huston, Harry Davenport. Summary: An Oscar documentary using actual spliced footage of the events of December 7, 1941. [HAWAII]
    1998 - Hump-Free, the Wrong Way Whale. (15 minutes) Summary: Tells of the 1985 journey to San Francisco up the Sacramento River of a whale that was off course. [HAWAII]
    1999 - Johnny Tsunami. Cast: Brandon Baker, Lee Thompson Young. Summary: The family of a 13-year old Hawaiian surfer moves to a ski resort and college town in Vermont where the father will work at a private school. [VERMONT/HAWAII]
    2002 - Lilo and Stitch. (85 minutes) Voices: Angela Lansbury. [HAWAII]
    IDAHO
    
    1998 - Smoke Signals. (89 minutes) Director: Chris Eyre. Cast: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Tantoo Cardinal, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer. Summary: Two young men leave the Coeur D'Alene Reservation in Idaho traveling to Phoenix, Arizona to pick up the remains and possessions of one of their recently deceased fathers. [IDAHO]
    ILLINOIS
    
    1931 - The Front Page. (99 minutes) Director: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Pat O'Brien, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton. Summary: In 1920s Chicago, a newspaper editor and his ace reporter fight corruption. [ILLINOIS]
    1939 - Young Mr. Lincoln. (100 minutes) Director: John Ford. Cast: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Donald Meek, Richard Cronwell, Eddie Quillan, Milburn Stone, Ward Bond. Summary: Life of Abraham Lincoln of Ohio. [ILLINOIS]
    1940 - Abe Lincoln in Illinois. (110 minutes) Director: John Cromwell. Cast: Raymond Massey. [based on a Robert Sherwood play] [ILLINOIS]
    1940 - Knute Rockne: All American. (74 minutes) Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan, Gale Page. Summary: Life of Knute Rockne, Notre Dame's football coach. [ILLINOIS]
    1941 - Tom, Dick, and Harry. (86 minutes) Director: Garson Kanin. Cast: Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alan Marshal, Burgess Meredith, Phil Silvers. Summary: Dreaming of money and riches, which eligible bachelor will spice up the humdrum life of telephone operator, Janie. Will it be her steady boyfriend, Tom, the car salesman; Harry, the mechanic; or Dick, the millionaire just returned from living in New York City? [CHICAGO, ILLINOIS; NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK]
    1948 - Call Northside 777. (111 minutes) Director: Henry Hathaway. Cast: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Helen Walker, Betty Grable. Summary: A Chicago reporter investigates the 11-year old murder of a policeman and the possible incorrect life sentence verdict for an innocent man. [ILLINOIS]
    1956 - The Rainmaker. (121 minutes) Director: Joseph Anthony. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey, Lloyd Bridges, Earl Holliman, Wallace Ford, Cameron Prud'homme. Summary: Based on N. Richard Nash's play telling of the drought in soutwestern United States and how a smooth-talking con man promises rain for a price. [IDAHO mentioned; southwestern United States not identified]
    1961 - Raisin in the Sun. (128 minutes) Director: Daniel Petrie. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee. Summary: A black apartment-living family seeks a better life by purchasing a home in a white neighborhood. [ILLINOIS]
    1971 - Brian's Song. (74 minutes) Director: Buzz Kulik. Cast: James Caan, Billy Dee Williams, Shelley Fabares. Summary: The competition between Chicago Bears' running back Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers which led to a friendship ending with Brian's death by cancer. [ILLINOIS]
    1974 - The Front Page. (105 minutes) Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Charles Durning, Herb Edelman, Vincent Gardenia, Harold Gould, Susan Sarandon, David Wayne. Summary: The story of newspaper reporters and a prison escapee. [ILLINOIS]
    1975 - Cooley High. (107 minutes) Director: Michael Schultz. Cast: Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Garrett Morris, Cynthia Davis, Corin Rogers. Summary: Two teenagers in 1964 Chicago skip high school one day and fall in love. [ILLINOIS]
    1976 - Silver Streak. (113 minutes) Director: Arthur Hiller. Cast: Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan, Ray Walston, Ned Beatty, Scatman Crothers. Summary: On the Silver Streak train from Los Angeles to Chicago, toss in a male book editor, a female secretary to an art historian, a thief, a few gangsters, and some FBI agents for some romance and murder. [ILLINOIS]
    1978 - Days of Heaven. (95 minutes) Director: Terrence Malick. Cast: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz. Summary: A steel mill worker living in the slums of Chicago, takes his girl friend and his young sister to work during harvest time in the Texas Panhandle wheat fields. [ILLINOIS]
    1980 - The Blues Brothers. (132 minutes) Director: John Landis. Cast: John Belushi, Dan Akroyd, John Candy, Carrie Fisher. Summary: The Blues Brothers, musicians in Chicago, try to save an orphanage. [ILLINOIS]
    1981 - Skokie. (121 minutes) Director: Herbert Wise. Cast: Danny Kaye, Brian Dennehy, Eli Wallach, Kim Hunter, Carl Reiner. Summary: In the late 1970s, the predominantly Jewish Skokie, Illinois is threatened by neo-Nazism. [ILLINOIS]
    1983 - Bad Boys. (109 minutes) Director: Rick Rosenthal. Cast: Sean Penn, Reni Santoni, Jim Moody, Eric Gurry, Esai Morales, Ally Sheedy. Summary: Two Chicago young men vow to kill each other in prison. [ILLINOIS]
    1983 - Risky Business. (99 minutes) Director: Paul Brickman. Cast: Tom Cruise, Rebecca DeMornay, Curtis Armstrong, Bronson Pinchot, Raphael Sbarge, Nicholas Pryor, Richard Masur. Summary: When his parents go on vacation, a young man cuts loose, hires a hooker, and has a house party. [ILLINOIS]
    1985 - Breakfast Club. (100 minutes) Director: John Hughes. Cast: Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall. Summary: During weekend detention class, a group of high school misfits get to be friends. [ILLINOIS]
    1985 - Code of Silence. (102 minutes) Director: Andrew Davis. Cast: Chuck Norris, Henry Silva, Bert Remsen, Dennis Farina, Mike Genovese. Summary: A Chicago policeman takes on the mob and corrupt police officers. [ILLINOIS]
    1986 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off. (104 minutes) Director: John Hughes. Cast: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones, Jennifer Grey, Charlie Sheen, Cindy Pickett, Lyman Ward. Summary: A high school boy pretends to be ill in order to have the day off. [ILLINOIS]
    1986 - Native Son. (101 minutes) Director: Jerrold Freedman. Cast: Victor Love, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth McGovern, Matt Dillon, Oprah Winfrey, Akosua Busia, Carroll Baker, Art Evans, David Rasche, Lane Smith, John McMartin. Summary: In 1940s Chicago, a poor 19-year-old black man gets a job working for a wealthy white family whose daughter, a follower of the communist party, befriends him and tragically dies at his hands causing a trial. [CHICAGO, ILLINOIS]
    1986 - No Mercy. (107 minutes) Director: Richard Pearce. Cast: Richard Gere, Kim Basinger. Summary: A Chicago cop travels to New Orleans to avenge the murder of his partner. [ILLINOIS]
    1986 - Pretty in Pink. (96 minutes) Director: Howard Deutch. Cast: Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, Annie Potts, Andrew McCarthy, James Spader. Summary: A young girl from a low-income part of Chicago mets a well-to-do guy, causing her childhood friend to become jealous. [ILLINOIS]
    1986 - Raw Deal. (107 minutes) Director: John Irvin. Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kathryn Harrold, Darren McGavin, Sam Wanamaker, Paul Shenar, Steven Hill. Summary: A former FBI agent is recruited to infiltrate the Chicago mob. [ILLINOIS]
    1986 - Running Scared. (107 minutes) Director: Peter Hyams. Cast: Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, Steven Bauer, Darlanne Fluegel, Joe Pantoliano, Jimmy Smits. Summary: Chicago detectives are after a drug dealer. [ILLINOIS]
    1987 - The Untouchables. (119 minutes) Director: Brian De Palma. Cast: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Billy Drago, Richard Bradford. Summary: In Prohibition-era Chicago, Federal agent Eliot Ness seeks Al Capone. [based on a David Mamet script] [ILLINOIS]
    1989 - When Harry Met Sally. (95 minutes) Director: Rob Reiner. Cast: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby. Summary: Will sex ruin a perfect relationship between a man and a woman? That's what Harry and Sally debate as recent University of Chicago graduates traveling to New York City during their first meeting and for the next eleven years. [NEW YORK; ILLINOIS]
    1992 - Prelude to a Kiss. (105 minutes) Director: Norman Rene. Cast: Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan, Kathy Bates. Summary: On a Chicago couple's wedding day, a strange occurrence happens at the wedding reception. [ILLINOIS]
    1993 - Guilty As Sin. (120 minutes) Director: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Rebecca DeMornay, Don Johnson, Stephen Lang, Jack Warden. Summary: A playboy accused of murdering his wife convinces a Chicago, Illinois criminal defense attorney to defend him, and manipulates incidents that incriminate her as an accomplice forcing her to be willing to give up her reputation and livelihood to turn him in. [ILLINOIS]
    1990 - Home Alone. (100 minutes) Director: Chris Columbus. Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Candy, Catherine O'Hara. Summary: When a family prepares to leave for their vacation, an 8-year old boy wishes they would leave him alone . . . and when they leave, not knowing they have forgotten him, he is home alone! [ILLINOIS]
    1991 - Curly Sue. (98 minutes) Director: John Hughes. Cast: James Belushi, Kelly Lynch, Alison Porter, John Getz. Summary: A homeless father-daughter scam duo against a female attorney.
    1991 - Only the Lonely. (110 minutes) Director: Chris Columbus. Cast: John Candy, Maureen O'Hara, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Quinn, James Belushi, Milo O'Shea, Macaulay Culkin. Summary: A 38-year old Chicago bachelor police officer lives with his widowed mother, falls in love with a mortician's daughter, and changes his life and his mother's life. [ILLINOIS]
    1992 - Candyman. (101 minutes) Director: Bernard Rose. Cast: Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Kasi Lemmons, Vanessa L. Williams, Michael Culkin. Summary: A hook-handed killer in the slums of Chicago can be beckoned by looking in a mirror and chanting his name. [ILLINOIS]
    1992 - Straight Talk. (87 minutes) Director: Barnet Kellman. Cast: Dolly Parton, James Woods, Griffin Dunne, Michael Madsen, Jerry Orbach, John Sayles, Teri Hatcher. Summary: An Arkansas country girl moves to Chicago where she gets involved as a radio talkshow host advising people about their problems. [ILLINOIS]
    1993 - The Fugitive. (133 minutes) Director: Andrew Davis. Cast: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Joe Pantoliano. Summary: Pursuit of a physician accused of killing his wife who claims that a one-armed man killed his wife. [ILLINOIS]
    1993 - Rookie of the Year. (103 minutes) Director: Daniel Stern. Cast: Thomas Ian Nicholas, Gary Busey, Albert Hall, Amy Morton, Dan Hedaya. Summary: Henry Rowengartner is being raised by a single mom in Chicago. He is an active twelve-year old with visions of playing for the Chicago Cubs. Unfortunately he is sports challenged until a slipping accident which causes his arm to be broken in several places. When the cast is removed he is able to throw a baseball one hundred miles an hour and is signed by the Chicago Cubs as their new ace pitcher. Will he be accepted by the adult players? Will he forfeit being a kid to make his playing dreams come true? Will his gifted arm be permanent? [ILLINOIS]
    1995 - The Boys Next Door. (99 minutes) Director: John Erman. Cast: Tony Goldwyn, Nathan Lane, Michael Jeter, Courtney B. Vance, Robert Sean Leonard, Mare Winningham. Summary: A social worker bonding with needy mentally ill adults living in an Illinois residential house must balance his work and personal life to save his marriage.
    1995 - While You Were Sleeping. (100 minutes) Director: Jon Turteltaub. Cast: Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, Peter Boyls, Glynis Johns, Jack Warden. Summary: A toll taker who has saved a man from death, is mistaken for the comatose man's fiancee, does nothing to dissuade people from thinking that, but falls in love with the comatose man's brother. [ILLINOIS]
    1996 - A Family Thing. (109 minutes) Director: Richard Pearce. Cast: Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones, Michael Beach, Irma P. Hall, David Keith. Summary: An Arkansas redneck learns in a sealed letter from a deceased parent of his relationship to a black, urban, Chicago cop. [ILLINOIS]
    1997 - The Killing Floor. (118 minutes) Cast: Alfre Woodard, Damien Leake, Moses Gunn, Clarence Felder. Summary: Union squabbles in the Chicago stockyards and slaughterhouses during World War II. [ILLINOIS]
    1997 - Love Jones. (108 minutes) Director: Theodore Witcher. Cast: Larenz Tate, Nia Long, Isaiah Washington. Summary: What happens to the relationship of an African-American couple who fall in love, but neither one will say "love"? [ILLINOIS]
    1997 - My Best Friend's Wedding. (105 minutes) Director: P. J. Hogan. Cast: Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz, Rupert Everett. Summary: When a woman realizes that she is in love with her best friend of ten years, she attempts to sabotage his upcoming marriage. [ILLINOIS]
    1998 - Hope Floats. (110 minutes) Director: Forest Whitaker. Cast: Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr., Gena Rowlands, Mae Whitman, Michael Pare. Summary: A Chicago housewife takes her daughter to her mother's Texas home after hearing that her best friend had an affair with her husband. [ILLINOIS; TEXAS]
    1998 - Uncle Buck. (106 minutes) Director: John Hughes. Cast: John Candy, Amy Madigan, Jean Kelly, Gaby Hoffman, Macauley Culkin. Summary: An uncle cares for his three nieces and nephews when their parents go to their grandfather in Indianapolis after a medical emergency and grows up from the experience. [ILLINOIS]
    1999 - Down in the Delta. (111 minutes) Director: Maya Angelou. Cast: Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman, Jr., Esther Rolle, Wesley Snipes. Summary: A Chicago grandmother, wanting to save her daughter and grandchildren from the dangers of the street, sends them to live in rural Mississippi with her brother-in-law. [ILLINOIS]
    1999 - Grizzly Falls. (94 minutes) Director: Stewart Raffill. Cast: Bryan Brown, Tom Jackson, Oliver Tobias. Summary: Flashback story of a boy and his hunter father who take a trip to the Northwest to Grizzly Falls to capture a full-grown grizzly bear and bring it back alive. [ILLINOIS; NORTHWEST]
    1999 - Message in a Bottle. (132 minutes) Director: Luis Mandoki. Cast: Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn, Paul Newman, John Savage, Illeana Douglas. Summary: A researcher at a Chicago newspaper find a passionate love letter inside a bottle while visiting the shoreline. Attempting to track down its author, she finds a reclusive sailboat builder on the East Coast whose wife died in childbirth two years earlier. They meet and fall in love with him visiting her in Chicago but leaving in anger when he finds out the contrived way they met. [ILLINOIS; CAROLINAS]
    2000 - Color Me Dark: The Story of Nellie Lee, The Great Migration North, Chicago, Illinois, 1919. (30 minutes) Director: based on the Scholastic "Dear America" book. Summary: Attempting to escape the racism of the south, a black funeral director and his wife move their two daughters to Chicago where they find out that riots and racism also exist. [ILLINOIS]
    2001 - Hardball. (106 minutes) Director: Brian Robbins. Cast: Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, John Hawkes, D. B. Sweeney, Mike McGlone, Graham Beckel. Summary: An addictive, down-on-his luck, self-destructive gambler, overly in debt to loan sharks and in fear of his life, reluctantly agrees with his financial adviser friend to coach a Chicago youth baseball team from the projects in exchange for $500 per week for 10 weeks. [CHICAGO, ILLINOIS]
    2001 - Just Visiting. (89 minutes) Director: Jean-Marie Gaubert. Cast: Jean Reno, Christina Applegate, Christian Clavier, Matthew Ross, Tara Reid, Malcolm McDowell. Summary: In the 12th century, a brave warrior and respected nobleman, his loyal servant, and an aging wizard are transported to the year 2000 where a museum employee becomes their unofficial guide to life in Chicago. [ILLINOIS]
    INDIANA
    
    1935 - Alice Adams. (99 minutes) Director: George Stevens. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Fred Mac Murray, Evelyn Venable, Hattie McDaniel. Summary: Family life in South Renford, Indiana, where class and wealth are important for social activities. [based on a Book Tarkington novel] [INDIANA]
    1941 - The Major and the Minor. (111 minutes) Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley, Diana Lynn. Summary: In 1941 New York City, Susan Applegate, an Iowan woman, decides to give up city life after 25 jobs and to return home only to find that the train fare has gone up. Her only solution is to disguise herself as a 12-year old and purchase a child's fare ticket. Keeping in character is a challenge as is being discovered so that she is trapped in her role. Brought to a military academy in Indiana by the military instructor who befriends her as Uncle Philip on the train, she finds herself falling in love with him, who is to be shortly married. [NEW YORK; INDIANA; IOWA]
    1942 - The Magnificent Ambersons. (88 minutes) Director: Orson Welles. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead. Summary: The decline of a wealthy midwestern family. [INDIANA]
    1956 - Friendly Persuasion. (140 minutes) Director: William Wyler. Cast: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins. Summary: A Quaker family is challenged during the Civil War in Indiana. [based on a Jessamyn West novel] [INDIANA]
    1957 - Raintree County. (168 minutes) Director: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Lee Marvin. Summary: The life of a southern belle during the Civil War. [INDIANA]
    1969 - Winning. (123 minutes) Director: James Goldstone. Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Robert Wagner, Richard Thomas. Summary: A race car driver cares more about winning than being involved with his family. [INDIANA]
    1986 - Hoosiers. (114 minutes) Director: David Anspaugh. Cast: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley. Summary: Hickory High's untraditional coach has them at the 1951 state championships. [INDIANA]
    1995 - Breaking Away. (100 minutes) Director: Peter Yates. Cast: Dennis Christopher, Daniel Stern, Dennis Quaid, Jackie Earle Haley, Paul Dooley, Barbara Barrie. Summary: Family life, friendships, and growing up and away in Bloomington, Indiana. [INDIANA]
    1997 - In & Out. (92 minutes) Director: Frank Oz. Cast: Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Matt Dillon, Debbie Reynolds, Wilford Brimley, Bob Newhart, Tom Selleck. Summary: The life of an Indiana high school teacher about to be married in three days changes when he is "outed" on national television by a former student and the current winner of an Oscar. [INDIANA]
    2001 - Best Man in Grass Creek. (88 minutes) Director: John Newcombe. Cast: Grace Phillips, Megan Mullally, John Hines, John Newcombe. Summary: Adam Lewis is marriage-shy after having been left at the altar three years previously. He and his girlfriend, Holly, arrive at a small Indiana town, Grass Creek, where Adam finds himself the best man at a wedding of a distant business associate. In exchange for being the best man, the business "stranger" will purchase an ad campaign. Twists and turns follow in this romantic comedy. [INDIANA]
    
    IOWA
    
    1934 - Our Daily Bread. (84 minutes) Director: King Vidor: Cast: Karen Morley, Tom Keene, John Qualen. Summary: Set in a fictitious Centre County in Ottaway Township, this social drama independently produced and directed by King Vidor focuses on a young couple during the Depression attempting to make a go of a communal farm society with city folk sharing their skills, trades, and ingenuity to survive from the land. [IOWA; MINNESOTA, OREGON, CALIFORNIA mentioned in the dialogue]
    1941 - The Major and the Minor. (111 minutes) Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley, Diana Lynn. Summary: In 1941 New York City, Susan Applegate, an Iowan woman, decides to give up city life after 25 jobs and to return home only to find that the train fare has gone up. Her only solution is to disguise herself as a 12-year old and purchase a child's fare ticket. Keeping in character is a challenge as is being discovered so that she is trapped in her role. Brought to a military academy in Indiana by the military instructor who befriends her as Uncle Philip on the train, she finds herself falling in love with him, who is to be shortly married. [NEW YORK; ; INDIANA; IOWA]
    1944 - The Fighting Sullivans. (111 minutes) Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Thomas Mitchell, Anne Baxter. Summary: Based on the true-life five brothers who grew up in Waterloo, Iowa and died together in World War II on the German-topedoed "Juneau." [IOWA]
    1945 - State Fair. (100 minutes) Director: Walter Lang. Cast: Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Vivian Blaine, Dick Haymes, Fay Bainter, Charles Wininger, Donald Meek, Frank McHugh, Percy Kilbridge, Harry Morgan. Summary: Adventures of a farm family at the Iowa State Fair. [IOWA]
    1946 - The Best Years of Our Lives. (170 minutes) Director: William Wyler. Cast: Myrna Loy, Frederic March, Dana Andrews, , Harold Russell, Teresa Wright, Hoagy Carmichael, Virginia Mayo. Summary: Three WWII servicemen of different social backgrounds and military histories share a plane returning home to Boone City from overseas, become friends, interact with their families, and try to blend into the at home society. [IOWA]
    1952 - Phone Call From A Stranger. (96 minutes) Director: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Shelley Winters, Bette Davis, Keenan Wynn, Gary Merrill, Evelyn Varden, Craig Stevens, Michael Rennie. Summary: While traveling from Iowa to California, an attorney leaving his family becomes involved with the families of three other air passengers of a plane crash. [CALIFORNIA; IOWA]
    1962 - The Music Man. (151 minutes) Director: Morton Da Costa. Cast: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Ron Howard, Buddy Hackett. Summary: A smooth-talking salesman persuades the parents of River City, Iowa youngsters into buying band instruments and uniforms. [IOWA]
    1976 - Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings. (121 minutes) Director: John Badham. Cast: Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones. Summary: Based on thenovel by William Brashler, this movie tells of a group of 1930's spirited renegade Negro ballplayers leave the Black League to begin their own team traveling through the Midwest states of Ohio, Kentucky, Minnesota, Iowa as they barnstorm other teams and fight against the unfair rules and poor treatment inflicted upon them by their Negro League owners. [OHIO; KENTUCKY; IOWA; MINNESOTA]
    1989 - Field of Dreams. (106 minutes) Director: Phil Alden Robinson. Cast: Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, Burt Lancaster, Ray Liotta, Timothy Busfield. Summary: An Iowan farmer hears a voice telling him to build a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. [IOWA]
    1991 - Sleeping with the Enemy. (99 minutes) Director: Joseph Ruben. Cast: Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, Kevin Anderson, Elizabeth Lawrence, Kyle Secor. Summary: A woman believed her husband was attentive until they were married and she discovered he was really compulsive, controlling, and dangerously violent. After three years of living in fear, she plans to escape by faking her death by drowning in a boating accident on Cape Cod and relocating to Iowa. All is fine until, even with a new look and identity, her obsessed and demented husband wants her to pay for deceiving him. [MASSACHUSETTS, IOWA]
    1993 - What's Eating Gilbert Grape. (118 minutes) Director: Lasse Hallstrom. Cast: Johnny Depp, Mary Steenburgen, Leonardo Di Caprio. Summary: Story of a small-town Iowan grocery clerk who cares for his 500 pound recluse mother and mentally challenged brother. [IOWA]
    1995 - Bridges of Madison County. (135 minutes) Director: Clint Eastwood. Cast: Meryl Streep, Clint Eastwood, Annie Corley, Victor Slezak. Summary: A romantic meeting of a free-spirited photographer for National Geographic magazine and an emotionally neglected Iowan farmer's wife. [IOWA]
    1997 - Michael. (106 minutes) Director: Nora Ephron. Cast: John Travolta, Andie MacDowell, William Hurt, Bob Hoskins. Summary: Two reporters from a Chicago tabloid investigate an old woman's claim that she shared a real angel at her motel. [IOWA]
    1997 - A Thousand Acres. (104 minutes) Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse. Cast: Jessica Lange, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jason Robards, Jr., Keith Carradine, Colin Firth. Summary: Two sisters face a land conflict brought on by their father. [based on a Jane Smiley novel] [IOWA]
    1999 - The Straight Story. (112 minutes) Director: David Lynch. Cast: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek. Summary: Ailing 73-year old Alvin Straight decides to visit his estranged brother to whom he has not spoken in ten years and drives a 1966 John Deere riding mower from Iowa to his home. [IOWA]
    2000 - Cora Unashamed. (95 minutes) Director: Deborah M. Pratt. Cast: Regina Taylor, Cherry Jones, Ellen Muth, Michael Gaston. Summary: 1920s/1930s [based on a Langston Hughes story] [IOWA]
    
    KANSAS
    
    1925 - Tumbleweeds. (82 minutes) Directors: William S. Hart, King Baggot Cast: William S. Hart, Barbara Bedford, Lucien Littlefield. Summary: In 1890s Kansas, a cowboy drifter by nature, meets and falls in love with a women whom he accidentally lassoed. Deciding to change his ways, the cowboy intends to join the Cherokee Strip Land Run of 1893, stake his land and settle down with his new love. However, before the start of the homesteading race, Carver is arrested, and his hopes of beginning anew are jeopardized. (Indie film/Silent film/WESTERN)
    
    1940 - Dark Command. (94 minutes) Director: Raoul Walsh. Cast: John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon, Claire Trevor. Summary: The people must face Quantrell's Raiders, a renegade group in the Kansas Territory. [KANSAS]
    1945 - Abilene Town. (89 minutes) Director: Edwin Marin. Cast: Randolph Scott, Rhonda Fleming. Summary: 1870s conflict between the cattlemen and the homesteaders. [KANSAS]
    1950 - Winchester '73. (82 minutes) Director: Anthony Mann. Cast: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally. Summary: History of the ownership of a Winchester Rifle 1873 from a Dodge City, Kansas contest winner back to him after revengeful conflict for the killing of his father. [KANSAS]
    1954 - Kansas Pacific. (73 minutes) Director: Ray Nazarro. Cast: Sterling Hayden. Summary: creation of the Kansas Pacific Railroad. [KANSAS]
    1955 - Picnic. (115 minutes) Director: Joshua Logan. Cast: William Holden, Kim Novak, Rosalind Russell. Summary: Based on a William Inge play, this tells of a drifter to a small Kansas town during a Labor Day weekend, falls in love with a friend's fiance. [KANSAS]
    1967 - Thoroughly Modern Millie. (138 minutes) Director: George Roy Hill. Cast: Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing, James Fox, Beatrice Lillie, John Gavin, Pat Morita, Jack Soo. Summary: A view of the 1920s Jazz Age, burlesque, flappers, and choreographed expressions with characters native to Kansas who go to New York City. [KANSAS]
    1969 - The Learning Tree. [KANSAS]
    1973 - Paper Moon. (102 minutes) Director: Peter Bogdanovich. Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal. Summary: Adventures of a conman and a kid in the 1936 Kansas and Missouri. [based on the novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown][KANSAS]
    1975 - The Last Day. (100 minutes) Director: Vincent McEveety. Cast: Richard Widmark, Robert Conrad, Christopher Connelly, Richard Jaeckel, Tim Matheson, Barbara Rush, Tom Skerritt. Summary: The 1892 shootout in Coffeyville, Kansas by the townspeople against the Daltons. [KANSAS]
    1980 - Resurrection. (103 minutes) Cast: Ellen Burstyn. Summary: A recently widowed woman in rural Kansas loses the use of her legs in a freak accident and realizes that she has the power to heal herself and others. [KANSAS]
    1991 - Sarah, Plain and Tall. (98 minutes) Director: Glenn Jordan. Cast: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken. Summary: A MAINE mail-order bride travels to Kansas to marry and raise a widower's family. [KANSAS]
    1992 - Leap of Faith. (110 minutes) Director: Richard Pearce. Cast: Steve Martin, Debra Winger, Lolita Davidovich, Liam Neeson, Lukas Haas. Summary: A flimflam reverend's bus dies in Rustwater, Kansas which inspires the preacher to create a miracle. [KANSAS]
    1992 - Skylark. (98 minutes) Director: Joseph Sargent. Cast: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Lexi Randall, Christopher Ball. Summary: A mail-order bride from Maine travels to Kansas with her cat to be married and raise the family of a farmer. [based on a Patricia MacLahlan novel] [MAINE/KANSAS] [KANSAS]
    1996 - Twister. (117 minutes) Director: Jan De Bont. Cast: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Jami Gertz, Cary Elwes, Lois Smith. Summary: Tornado followers track twisters in Kansas. [KANSAS]
    1997 - The Locusts. (125 minutes) Director: John Patrick Kelley. Cast: Vince Vaughn, Kate Capshaw, Jeremy Davies, Ashley Judd. Summary: In 1960s a drifter hires on to work on the farm of a Kansas widow with a 21-year old son who is recently released from a mental asylum. [KANSAS]
    KENTUCKY
    
    1949 - The Fighting Kentuckian. (100 minutes) Director: George Waggner. Cast: John Wayne, Vera Ralston. Summary: Frontiersmen come to the aid of Napoleonic French homesteaders. [KENTUCKY]
    1958 - Thunder Road. (93 minutes) Director: Arthur Ripley. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Sandra Knight. Summary: An outwitting bootlegger. [KENTUCKY]
    1976 - Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings. (121 minutes) Director: John Badham. Cast: Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones. Summary: Based on the novel by William Brashler, this movie tells of a group of 1930's spirited renegade Negro ballplayers leave the Black League to begin their own team traveling through the Midwest states of Ohio, Kentucky, Minnesota, Iowa as they barnstorm other teams and fight against the unfair rules and poor treatment inflicted upon them by their Negro League owners. [OHIO; KENTUCKY; IOWA; MINNESOTA]
    1980 - Coal Miner's Daughter. (125 minutes) Director: Michael Apted. Cast: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm, Phyllis Boyens, Beverly D'Angelo. Summary: Follows Loretta Lynn's birth in Butcher Hollow Kentucky to her marriage to a World War II veteran at age thirteen, the birth of her children, her performances at Grand Ole Opry and her career. [KENTUCKY]
    1981 - Pride of Jesse Hallam. (105 minutes) Director: Gary Nelson. Cast: Johnny Cash, Brenda Vaccaro, Ben Marley, Eli Wallach. Summary: Character seeks literacy. [KENTUCKY]
    1987 - The Dollmaker. (140 minutes) Director: Daniel Petrie. Cast: Jane Fonda, Levon Helm, Amanda Plummer, Geraldine Page. Summary: Life of Gertie Nevels in 1944 Kentucky. [KENTUCKY]
    1999 - Simpatico. Cast: Nick Nolte, Jeff Bridges, Sharon Stone. Summary: Three Kentucky friends and a secret.
    1999 - The Songcatcher. (105 minutes) Director: Maggie Greenwald. Cast: Janet McTeer, Aidan Quinn, Pat Carroll, Jane Adams, Greg Cook, Emmy Rossum, Taj Mahal. Summary: A female music scholar at the beginning of the 20th century, being passed over for research projects by her male counterparts, discovers a treasure trove of ancient Scot and Irish ballads when visiting her sister in a rural school in Appalachia. She begins to record the songs on wax cylinders until she begins to wonder that she might be exploiting the people who trusted her. [APPALACHIA]
    2000 - Harlan County War. (104 minutes) Director: Tony Bill. Cast: Holly Hunter, Stellan Skarsgard, Ted Levine. Summary: Depiction of the 1973 coal mining strike. [KENTUCKY]
    LOUISIANA
    
    1938 - Jezebel. (104 minutes) Director: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Fay Bainter. Summary: In 1850s New Orleans, a strong-willed southern belle becomes engaged to a Northern banker, but never marries. Instead he marries a Northern bridge and returns to the South where the two women battle. [LOUISIANA]
    1946 - Saratoga Trunk. (135 minutes) Director: Sam Wood. Cast: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman. Summary: A Creole woman whose mother had been wronged years ago in Louisiana returns after groing up in France seeking revenge and money. Based on the Edna Ferber novel, she meets and falls in love with a handsome Texan. Both of them seek wealth and neither of them has it. She follows him to a spa at Saratoga, New York where she goes husband-hunting. The Texan seeks his wealth by seeking revenge against railroad men along the Saratoga trunk of the railroad. [LOUISIANA; NEW YORK]
    1949 - All the King's Men. (109 minutes) Director: Robert Rossen. Cast: Broderick Crawford, Mercedes McCambridge, Joanna Dru. Account of a corrupt politician's rise to power. [based on a Robert Penn Warren novel] [LOUISIANA]
    1951 - A Streetcar Named Desire. (122 minutes) Director: Elia Kazan. Cast: Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, Kim Hunter. Summary: A southern belle moves in with her sister and brother-in-law. [Tennessee Williams' novel] [LOUISIANA]
    1958 - King Creole. (116 minutes) Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Elvis Presley, Walter Matthau. Summary: Music and New Orleans
    1959 - Suddenly, Last Summer. (114 minutes) Director: Joseph Mankiewicz. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Katharine Hepburn. Summary: Neurosis of a young woman. [based on a Tennessee Williams' story] [LOUISIANA]
    1965 - Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte. (133 minutes) Director: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Cecil Kellaway, Mary Astor, Bruce Dern. Summary: Is the daughter of a Louisiana landowner mad? [LOUISIANA]
    1969 - Easy Rider. (94 minutes) Director: Dennis Hopper. Cast: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson. Summary: Adventures of two drifters motorcycling across the USA. [LOUISIANA]
    1972 - Buck and the Preacher. (102 minutes) Director: Sidney Poitier. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell. Summary: After the Civil War, freed slaves sought new lives out West but others tried to get them to return to Louisiana. An ex-Union Army Calvary sergeant lead freed slaves to the Colorado territory. [LOUISIANA/COLORADO]
    1972 - Sounder. (105 minutes) Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Mathews, Taj Mahal, James Best, Janet MacLachlan. Summary: A black sharecropper during the Depression steals food for his family and is sent to jail leaving his wife to raise the family. [based on a William Armstrong novel] [LOUISIANA]
    1975 - Let's Do It Again. (112 minutes) Director: Sidney Poitier. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Jimmie Walker, Calvin Lockhart, John Amos, Denise Nichols. Summary: Two lodge brothers take on the gangsters in New Orleans. [LOUISIANA]
    1978 - Casey's Shadow. (116 minutes) Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: Walter Matthau, Alexis Smith, Robert Webber, Murray Hamilton. Summary: A Louisiana horse trainer left by his wife raises his three sons alone. [LOUISIANA]
    1978 - Pretty Baby. (109 minutes) Director: Louis Malle. Cast: Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon. Summary: Life of a girl growing up in a New Orleans whorehouse. [LOUISIANA]
    1980 - Sky Is Gray. (46 minutes) Director: Stan Lathan. Cast: Olivia Cole, James Bond III, Margaret Avery, Cleavon Little, Clinton Derricks-Carroll. Summary: A young boy's exposure to racism, poverty, and pride in 1940s Louisiana. [LOUISIANA]
    1984 - A Soldier's Story. (102 minutes) Director: Norman Jewison. Cast: Howard Rollins, Jr., Denzel Washington, Patti La Belle. Summary: Combination of a murder mystery, a character study, and a drama based on racial hatred. [based on a Charles Fuller novel] [LOUISIANA]
    1984 - Tightrope. (115 minutes) Director: Richard Tuggle. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Genevieve Bujold. Summary: A suspense thriller with a New Orleans homocide inspector with an S & M fetish being suspected of the crime he is investigating. [LOUISIANA]
    1986 - No Mercy. (107 minutes) Director: Richard Pearce. Cast: Richard Gere, Kim Basinger. Summary: A Chicago cop travels to New Orleans to avenge the murder of his partner. [LOUISIANA]
    1987 - Angel Heart. (113 minutes) Director: Alan Parker. Cast: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet. Summary: In New Orleans, 1955, a private investigator is to find a missing singer to win a bet. [LOUISIANA]
    1987 - The Big Easy. (100 minutes) Director: Jim McBride. Cast: Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin. Summary: The friction between a New Orleans police lieutenant and an assistant district attorney. [LOUISIANA]
    1987 - Shy People. (119 minutes) Director: Andrei Konchalovsky. Cast: Jill Clayburgh, Barbara Hershey, Martha Plimpton, Mare Winningham. Summary: A New York magazine writer meets her kin in Louisiana. [LOUISIANA]
    1988 - Dead Man Walking. (1988) Director: Richard Pearce. Cast: Danny Glover, Ruben Blades, Tom Atkins, Larry Block, Sam Jackson. Summary: When a disease runs rampant, a wealthy man hires a mercenary to get his girlfriend away from the plague area. [LOUISIANA]
    1989 - Blaze. (108 minutes) Director: Ron Shelton. Cast: Paul Newman. Summary: A Bourbon Street stripper, Blaze Starr, and her 1950s affair with Louisiana governor, Earl Long. [LOUISIANA]
    1989 - Steel Magnolias. (118 minutes) Director: Herbert Ross. Cast: Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Julia Roberts, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine, Tom Skerritt, Sam Shepard. Summary: When a young Louisiana woman, diabetic all her life, decides to marry and have a baby, she might lose her life. This choice leaves her own mother torn between love and anger, while her loyal friends support her and try to deal with their own feelings.
    1992 - Passion Fish. (134 minutes) Director: John Sayles. Cast: Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard. Summary: A paralyzed New York City soap opera actress returns home to the Louisiana swamplands to heal. [LOUISIANA]
    1995 - Dead Man Walking. (120 minutes) Director: Tim Robbins. Cast: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky, Raymond J. Barry, R. Lee Ermey. Summary: Story of Sister Helen Prejean, a spiritual adviser in New Orleans' Angola Prison with prisoners guilty of murder and condemned to die. [based on the novel of Sister Helen Prejean] [LOUISIANA]
    1998 - Judas Kiss. (108 minutes) Director: Sebastian Gutierrez. Cast: Emma Thompson, Alan Richman. Summary: A group of small-time criminals attempt a four million dollar kidnapping scheme that puts federal agents on their trail and forces each criminal to decide whom to betray. [LOUISIANA]
    1998 - Ruby Bridges. (90 minutes) Cast: Penelope Ann Miller, Kevin Pollak, Michael Beach, Jean Louisa Kelly, Peter Francis James, Chaz Monet. Summary: Ruby Bridges as one of the first Black students to integrate public elementary school in New Orleans. [LOUISIANA]
    1998 - The Waterboy. (88 minuntes) Cast: Adam Sandler, Henry Winkler, Kathy Bates, Fairuza Balk. Summary: A Louisiana man from the bayous rises from waterboy when discovered by a coach. [LOUISIANA]
    1999 - Double Jeopardy. Director: Bruce Beresford. Cast: Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones. Summary: An innocent woman sentenced to prison for killing her husband, gets paroled, finds her husband, and kills him. [LOUISIANA]
    1999 - Passing Glory. (95 minutes) Director: Steve James. Cast: Andre Braugher, Rip Torn, Ruby Dee, Sean Squire, Bill Nunn. Summary: A 1965 tale of a teacher/basketball coach attempting to integrate the local high-school basketball league. [LOUISIANA]
    1999 - Wild Wild West. (105 minutes) Director:Barry Sonnenfeld. Cast: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Salma Hayek, Kenneth Branagh, Ted Levine. Summary: In 1869, an enemy of the United States threatens Pres. Ulysses S. Grant to give over the government to him, but Grant has two Federal workers begin to work on the problem in Louisiana which is successfully resolved at the connection of the two railroad lines at Promontory Point, Utah. [LOUISIANA, UTAH]
    MAINE
    
    1945 - The Enchanted Cottage. (91 minutes) Director: John Cromwell. Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall, Spring Byington, Hillary Brooke. Summary: In a New England cottage, a combination of romance, fantasy, and melodrama blooms during World War II when a battle-damaged pilot and an inwardly lonely woman meet and see the best in each other through with the help of a widow and a blind visitor. [VERMONT; MAINE?; NEW ENGLAND]
    1973 - Charlotte's Web. Voices: Paul Lynd, Debbie Reynolds. Summary: A young girl befriends the animals of the barnyard which includes a pig, a rat, and a spider. [based on the book by Maine's E. B. White] [MAINE]
    1977 - Pete's Dragon. (134 minutes) Director: Don Chaffey. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Jim Dale, Helen Reddy, Red Buttons, Jim Backus, Sean Marshall. Summary: In 1908 Maine, a 9-year old boy allows a pet dragon that only he can see to help him escape from his foster parents. [MAINE]
    1977 - The White Heron: A Maine Story. Cast: Ruth Rogers, Gary Stine. [based on a Sarah Orne Jewett book] [MAINE]
    1987 - Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie. (30 minutes) Summary: Experience of a young girl helping her country at her 1856 lighthouse. [MAINE]
    1988 - The Good Mother. (104 minutes) Director: Leonard Nemoy. Cast: Diane Keaton, Liam Neeson, Jason Robards, Ralph Bellamy, Katy Sagal. Summary: The divorced mother of a young daughter living in the Cambridge area and working at a college lab finds love and passion with an artist which leads to a court custody case involving the sexual permissiveness of her parenting. [based on a Sue Miller novel] [MASSACHUSETTS/MAINE/CONNECTICUT]
    1988 - Whales of August. (90 minutes) Director: Lindsay Anderson. Cast: Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Vincent Price, Ann Sothern. Summary: Two older sisters live and bicker at their island home off the coast of Maine. [MAINE]
    1989 - Sins of Our Mothers: The Story of Emeline. Narrator: Amanda Plummer. Summary: Emeline Gurney of Fayette, Maine travels to Lowell, Massachusetts to work in a textile mill. [MAINE/MASSACHUSETTS]
    1992 - Skylark. (98 minutes) Director: Joseph Sargent. Cast: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Lexi Randall, Christopher Ball. Summary: A mail-order bride from Maine travels to Kansas with her cat to be married and raise the family of a farmer. [based on a Patricia MacLahlan novel] [MAINE/KANSAS]
    1994 - A Visit With Barbara Cooney (29 minutes) [writer of children's books] [MAINE]
    1995 - Dolores Claiborne. (131 minutes) Director: Taylor Hackford. Cast: Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt, Christopher Plummer, David Strathairn. Summary: A Maine housekeeper is accused of killing her employer. [based on a Stephen King novel] [MAINE]
    1996 - Fudge-A-Mania. (93 minutes) Cast: Florence Henderson, Darren McGavin, Eve Plumb. Summary: Experiences of the Farley family. [based on a Judy Blume book] [MAINE]
    1996 - The Spitfire Grill. (111 minutes) Director: Lee David Zlotoff. Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Marcia Gay Harden, Alison Elliott. Summary: A prison parolee gets a job and befriends the owner of a Maine grill. [MAINE]
    1997 - Andre. (96 minutes) Director: George Miller. Cast: Keith Carradine, Tina Majorino. [MAINE]
    1997 - A Midwife's Tale (88 minutes) Summary: Life of Martha Ballard of Hallowell, Maine from her diary interpreted from Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's book. [MAINE]
    1997 - Sign of the Beaver. (93 minutes) Cast: Keith Carradine, Annette O'Toole. Summary: An 18th century male settler and his son from Massachusetts settle on land in Maine and build a cabin with the father leaving the boy to tend the land and survive nature and the natives while he goes back to Massachusetts for the rest of the family. [MAINE]
    1999 - The Cider House Rules. (131 minutes) Director: Lasse Hallstrom. Cast: Tobey Maguire, Michael Caine. Summary: During World War II, a young man leaves an orphanage to work in an apple orchard and falls in love with the girlfriend of his friend who is away fighting in the war. (based on John Irvine novel) [MAINE]
    1999 - Stephen King's Storm of the Century. (256 minutes) Director: Craig R. Baxley. Cast: Tim Daly, Colm Feore, Debra Farentino. [MAINE]
    1999 - Stuart Little. (89 minutes) Director: Rob Minkoff. Voices: Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, Nathan Lane, Michael J. Fox. Summary: A human family adopts a mouse into its family. [based on the book by Maine's E. B. White] [MAINE]
    2001 - In the Bedroom. (131 minutes) Director: Todd Field. Cast: Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, Marisa Tomei. [MAINE]
    2003 - Welcome to Mooseport. (115 minutes) Director: Donald Petrie. Cast: Gene Hackman, Ray Romano, Marcia Gay Harden, Maura Tierney, Christine Baranski, Rip Torn. Summary: The recently divorced former President of the United States returns to live at his summer home in Mooseport, Maine, and is asked to run for mayor, a position which nobody wants. When a local plumber volunteers to help out the town, the national spotlight focuses on Mooseport. [MAINE]
    MARYLAND
    
    1941 - The Great Lie. (101 minutes) Director: Edmund Goulding. Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor, Lucile Watson, Hattie McDaniel, Grant Mitchell, Jerome Cowan. Summary: Melodramatic story of a pilot man who marries a professional pianist and finds out the marriage is illegal because her divorce was not yet formal. When the actual date arrives, she prefers to give a concert in Philadelphia than get married legally. He returns to Maryland and proposes to his former fiance who accepts. He gets a job helping Washington, D. C. with his flying skills and turns up lost. The pianist learns she is pregnant. The legal wife wants to raise the child. She goes with the pianist to Arizona until the boy is born and the pact of insuring the pianist's monetary problems for the gift of raising the son is formed until the husband turns up found. [SOUTH AMERICA; ARIZONA; MARYLAND; NEW YORK; WASHINGTON, D. C.]
    1942 - In This Our Life. (98 minutes) Director: John Huston. Cast: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent, Dennis Morgan, Charles Coburn, Billie Burke, Frank Craven, Hattie McDaniel, Lee Patrick. Music: Max Steiner Summary: Based on an Ellen Glasgow novel, Stanley Timberlake leaves her fiance, an attorney, to run off with her sisters husband, a physician, causing him to drink, commit suicide and her to return to attempt to snare back her former fiance, now the fiance of her sister. [MARYLAND]
    1956 - Great Locomotive Chase. (85 minutes) Director: Francis D. Lyon. Cast: Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter. Summary: The 1862 story of Andrew's Raid, a plot to cripple the railroad system of the Confederacy - "Chattanooga Railroad Expedition or 1862" [MARYLAND]
    1982 - Secret of NIMH. (82 minutes) Voices: Dom DeLuise, Peter Straus, John Carradine. Summary: Rats at the National Institute of Mental Health are used in experiments. [MARYLAND]
    1989 - Men Don't Leave. (120 minutes) Director: Paul Brickman. Cast: Jessica Lange, Arliss Howard, Joan Cusack. Summary: A woman tries to raise her two sons after their father dies in a freak accident. [MARYLAND]
    1990 - Avalon. (126 minutes) Director: Barry Levinson. Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elizabeth Perkins, Joan Plowright, Aidan Quinn. Summary: Follows fifty years in the lives of three generations of Russian-Jewish immigrants in Baltimore, Maryland. [MARYLAND]
    1992 - The Babe. (115 minutes) Director: Arthur Hiller. Cast: John Goodman, Kelly McGillis. Summary: Story of George Herman "Babe" Ruth, born in Baltimore, Maryland [MARYLAND]
    1992 - A Woman Called Moses. (200 minutes) Director: Paul Wendkos. Cast: Cicely Tyson, Will Geer, Robert Hooks. Summary: Life of Harriet Tubman/ Araminta "Minty" Ross [MARYLAND]
    1994 - Serial Mom. (97 minutes) Director: John Waters. Cast: Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Suzanne Somers, Ricki Lake. Summary: A woman's homicidal streak breaks forth when her family gets bothered by outsiders. [MARYLAND]
    1995 - Home for the Holidays. (103 minutes) Director: Jodie Foster. Cast: Holly Hunter, Anne Bancroft, Robert Downey, Jr., Dylan McDermott, Geraldine Chaplin, Charles Durning. Summary: A dysfunctional family meets at the family home on Thanksgiving. [MARYLAND]
    1997 - Harriet and the Promised Land. (8 minutes) [Harriet Tubman] Narrator: Ruby Dee [based on the Jacob Lawrence picture book] [MARYLAND]
    1999 - Liberty Heights. (122 minutes) Director: Barry Levinson. Cast: Ben Foster, Rebekah Johnson. Summary: In 1954 Baltimore, a Jewish family remembers their life together. [MARYLAND]
    2001 - Hannibal. (131 minutes) Director: Ridley Scott. Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Ray Liotta. [MARYLAND]
    MASSACHUSETTS
    
    1940 - The House of Seven Gables. (90 minutes) Director: Joe May. Cast: Vincent Price, Margaret Lindsay, George Sanders, Nan Grey, Alan Napier, Dick Foran. Summary: In Salem, Massachusetts, what is going on in the house with seven gables? [based on a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel] [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1942 - Now, Voyager. (118 minutes) Director: Irving Rapper. Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Bonita Granville, Ilka Chase. Music: Max Steiner Summary: Based on an Olive Higgins Prouty novel, Charlotte Vale, a Boston-bred spinster's life is physically and spiritually transformed after a breakdown and treatment by a psychiatrist who supports her overcoming her domineering mother to discover love, heartbreak, and contentment in her own life. [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1946 - A Stolen Life. (109 minutes) Director: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark, Bruce Bennett, Charlie Ruggles, Walter Brennan. Music: Max Steiner Summary: On Martha's Vineyard, the conniving twin sister of a pair of twins goes after and marries the prospective boyfriend of the other twin. (produced by Bette Davis) [MASSACHUSETTS; NEW YORK]
    1949 - Little Women. (121 minutes) Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Mary Astor, Janet Leigh, Margaret O'Brien. Summary: Louisa May Alcott's life in 1860s Concord, Massachusetts. (see: 1994 version) [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1957 - Fear Strikes Out. (81 minutes) Director: Robert Mulligan. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore, Adam Williams, Perry Wilson. Summary: The story of Jimmy Piersall of the Boston Red Sox. [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1957 - Johnny Tremain. (80 minutes) Summary: An apprentice silversmith in 1770s Boston becomes involved with the Sons of Liberty and attempts to prove his lineage to a wealthy merchant. [Esther Forbes novel of 1770s Boston] [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1958 - The Last Hurrah. (114 minutes) Director: John Ford. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianna Foster, Pat O'Brien, Basil Rathbone, Donald Crisp, James Gleason, Edward Brophy, John Carradine, Wallace Ford, Frank McHugh, Jane Darwell. Summary: Story of an Irish-Catholic mayor (Boston's James Michael Curley) running for office one last time. [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1963 - Donovan's Reef. (109 minutes) Director: John Ford. Cast: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Allen, Jack Warden, Dorothy Lamour. Summary: A Boston girl visits her father and meets three old drinking seafaring buddies attempting to impress her but hiding her from her bi-racial step-siblings. [MASSACHUSETTS][SOUTH PACIFIC]
    1968 - The Thomas Crown Affair. (102 minutes) Director: Norman Jewison. Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Biff McGuire. Summary: A self-made rich man robs a Boston bank with five collaborators who have never met him face-to-face. When a female lead investigator brought in to handle the case believes that he is the culprit, the two get into a bet where he will rob again and then meet her after the caper. [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1969 - Mouse on the Mayflower. Voices: Ernie Ford, Eddie Albert. [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1970 - Love Story. (99 minutes) Director: Arthur Hiller. Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Ali MacGraw, Ray Milland. Summary: A Harvard College hockey player and pre-law student from a wealthy family falls in love with and marries a music student who is the daughter of a working class person. [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1971 - Alice's Restaurant. (111 minutes) Director: Arthur Penn. Cast: Arlo Guthrie, Pat Quinn, James Broderick, Michael McClanathan, Geoff Outlaw, Tina Chen. Summary: Experiences of the 1960s counter-culture Stockbridge, Massachusetts. [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1973 - The Paper Chase. (111 minutes) Director: James Bridges. Cast: Timothy Bottoms, John Houseman, Lindsay Wagner. Summary: A Harvard law professor guides his law students in the use of the Socratic method of thinking. (John J. Osborne novel) [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1978 - The Brink's Job. (103 minutes) Director: William Friedkin. Cast: Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, Warren Oates. Summary: A group of gangsters execute the 1950s Boston heist at the Brinks warehouse. [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1978 - Coma. (79 minutes) Director: Michael Crichton. Cast: Genevieve Bujold, Michael Douglas, Richard Widmark, Rip Torn, Elizabeth Ashley. Summary: What happens to make healthy people go into a coma after surgery in this city hospital? [based on a Robin Cook novel] [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1979 - Mayflower: The Pilgrim's Adventure. (96 minutes) Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Leslie-Anne Downs, Richard Crenna, Trish Van Devere. Summary: The 1620 trip of the Pilgrims to Provincetown and settlement at Plimoth. [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1981 - Whose Life Is It, Anyway?. (118 minutes) Director: John Badham. Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, Christine Lahti, Bob Balaban, Kenneth McMillan, Kaki Hunter, Janet Eilber. Summary: Focuses on the theme of an individual's right to choose the manner of his own death, when an automobile accident renders a Boston sculptor a quadraplegic.
    1982 - The Verdict. (129 minutes) Director: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Paul Newman, James Mason, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden. Summary: An alcoholic Boston lawyer redeems his professional career in a malpractice case. (John Grisham novel) [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1985 - Three Sovereigns for Sarah. (171 minutes) Director: Philip Leacock. Cast: Vanessa Redgrave. Summary: Revelation of how the 1620s Salem witch trials were motivated by the desire for land. [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1986 - Soul Man. (101 minutes) Director: Steve Miner. Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, James Earl Jones, Arye Gross, James. B. Sikking, Leslie Nielsen. Summary: A Los Angeles preppie masquerades to get financial assistance to attend Harvard College. [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1987 - April Morning. Cast: Robert Urich. Summary: A group of local farmers defend the Lexington Green against the British regulars on April 18, 1775. [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1987 - Taking Care of Terrific. (58 minutes) Director:Jim Purdy. Cast: Melvin Van Peebles, Joanne Vannicola, Benjamin Barrett, Zack Ward, Jackie Burroughs. Summary: Based on the Lois Lowry novel set in Boston, Massachusetts, features only child, 14-year-old Enid Crowley (Cynthia) whose professional parents do not have much time to spend with her. She spends time sketching at the Public Gardens befriending the homeless women and a street musician saxophone player. Her life changes when she becomes a full-time babysitter to a wealthy, pampered boy, "Tom Terrific." [BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS]
    1988 - The Good Mother. (104 minutes) Director: Leonard Nemoy. Cast: Diane Keaton, Liam Neeson, Jason Robards, Ralph Bellamy, Katy Sagal. Summary: The divorced mother of a young daughter living in the Cambridge area and working at a college lab finds love and passion with an artist which leads to a court custody case involving the sexual permissiveness of her parenting. [based on a Sue Miller novel] [MASSACHUSETTS/MAINE/CONNECTICUT]
    1989 - Glory. (202 minutes) Director: Edward Zwick. Cast: Matthew Broderick, Denzell Washington, Morgan Freeman. Summary: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Robert Gould Shaw fights in the Civil War in South Carolina. [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1989 - Sins of Our Mothers: The Story of Emeline. Narrator: Amanda Plummer. Summary: Emeline Gurney of Fayette, Maine travels to Lowell, Massachusetts to work in a textile mill. [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1991 - Once Around. (115 minutes) Director: Lasse Hallstrom. Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Danny Aiello, Laura San Giacomo, Gena Rowlands. Summary: A Boston woman finds romance with an oddball, middle-aged millionaire whose personality emotionally splits her close family. [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1991 - Sleeping with the Enemy. (99 minutes) Director: Joseph Ruben. Cast: Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, Kevin Anderson, Elizabeth Lawrence, Kyle Secor. Summary: A woman believed her husband was attentive until they were married and she discovered he was really compulsive, controlling, and dangerously violent. After three years of living in fear, she plans to escape by faking her death by drowning in a boating accident on Cape Cod and relocating to Iowa. All is fine until, even with a new look and identity, her obsessed and demented husband wants her to pay for deceiving him. [MASSACHUSETTS, IOWA]
    1991 - Story of America's Classic Ballparks. (56 minutes) [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1993 - Spenser: Ceremony. (96 minutes) Director: Andrew Wild. Cast: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks. Summary: Adventures of the Boston-based private investigator. [based on Robert B. Parker's novels] [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1994 - Little Women. (119 minutes) Director: Gillian Armstrong. Cast: Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon, Trini Alvarado, Eric Stoltz, Christian Bale. Summary: Louisa May Alcott's life in 1860s Concord, Massachusetts. (see: 1949 version) [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1994 - Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes. (96 minutes) Director: Vic Sarin. Cast: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks. Summary: The Boston-based private investigator is on the case. [based on Robert B. Parker's novels] [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1995 - The Scarlet Letter. (135 minutes) Director: Roland Joffe. Cast: Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall, Joan Plowright, Robert Prosky. Summary: The punishment of the 1600s adulterous Salem woman. (Hawthorne novel) [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1996 - The Crucible. (115 minutes) Cast: Winona Ryder, Joan Allen, Paul Scofield, Daniel Day-Lewis. Summary: The 1692 Salem witch trials. [based on an Arthur Miller play] [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1996 - Squanto: A Warrior's Tale. (97 minutes) Director: Xavier Killer. Cast: Adam Beach, Eric Schweig, Michael Gambon, Nathaniel Parker, Alex Norton, Stuart Pankin, Donal Donnelly, Mandy Patinkin. Summary: The experiences of the Wampanoag who helped the Plimoth settlers. [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1996 - To Gillian on her 37th Birthday. (92 minutes) Director: Michael Pressman. Cast: Peter Gallaher, Claire Danes, Kathy Baker, Wendy Crewson, Bruce Altman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Laurie Fortier. Summary: A weekend on a small island off the Massachusetts coast is the scene for this story of a family concerned with the behavior of a widower who continues to "see and talk to" his late wife who fell from the mast of their boat two years previously, and his refusal to leave the island, take back his job as literature instructor at Boston University, and let him and his teenager daughter "move on". [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1997 - Good Will Hunting. (126 minutes) Director: Gus Van Sant Cast: Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver. Summary: A Harvard mathematical genius emerges. [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1998 - A Civil Action. (118 minutes) Director: Steven Zaillian. Cast: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Tony Shalhoub, William H. Macy, John Lithgow, Kathleen Quinlan. Summary: Personal injury attorney Jan Schlichtmann represents 1970s residents of Woburn, Massachusetts leukemia victims involved in corporate negligence suit against Beatrice Foods and W. R. Grace & Company. (Jonathan Harr non-fiction book) [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1998 - Southie. (96 minutes) Director: John Shea. Cast: Donnie Wahlberg, Rose McGowan. Summary: Life in South Boston, Massachusetts. [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1999 - Boondock Saints. Director: Troy Duffy. Cast: Willem Dafoe. (Boston) [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1999 - Girl Interrupted. (125 minutes) Director: James Mangold. Cast: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie. [based on Susanna Kaysen's memoir) [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1999 - Journey to the New World. (30 minutes) [1620 Mayflower] [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1999 - Small Vices. (100 minutes) Director: Robert Markowitz. Cast: Joe Montegna, Marcia Gay Harden, Shiek Mahmud-Bey. The case of a man convicted of murder brings Spenser to investigate for the convicts law firm. [Private Investigator Spenser in Boston] [a Robert Parker novel] [MASSACHUSETTS]
    1999 - So Far From Home: The Story of Mary Driscoll, An Irish Mill Girl. Summary: Life in an 1800s Lowell textile mill
    2000 - Here on Earth. (96 minutes) Director: Mark Piznarski. Cast: Chris Klein, Leelee Sobieski, Josh Hartnett, Bruce Greenwood, Annette O'Toole, Annie Corley, Stuart Wilson, Michael Rooker. Summary: A Boston rich kid attending a prestigious prep school in New York destroys a diner while racing recklessly against a local youth. Both are sentenced to a summer of manual labor rebuilding the diner. The rich kid finds love with the daughter of Mabel's Table. [NEW YORK; MASSACHUSETTS]
    2000 - The Perfect Storm. (129 minutes) Director: Wolfgang Petersen. Cast: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, John C. Reilly, Karen Allen, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, William Fichtner, Bob Gunton. Summary: Story of a Gloucester fishing boat that was at the confluence of two storms on October, 1991. (Sebastian Junger non-fiction book) [MASSACHUSETTS]
    2000 - Sacco and Vanzetti. (121 minutes) Director: Giuliano Montaldo. Cast: Gian Maria Volonte, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack, Milo O'Shea. Summary: The trial and later execution of two Italian immigrants convicted of murder in 1921. [MASSACHUSETTS]
    2001 - Legally Blonde. (96 minutes) Director: Robert Luketic. Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Matthew Davis, Selma Blair. Summary: To prove herself "worthy" of her boyfriend's family, a Malibu sorority/fashion degree girl studies for and passes the LSAT, is accepted to Harvard Law School, and, with her Chihuahua, develops friendships, sticks to her ethics of loyalty and compassion, and follows her path to a law degree. [CALIFORNIA; MASSACHUSETTS]
    2001 - Summer Catch. Cast: Freddie Prinze Jr., Jessica Biel. Summary: Romance of a pitcher for an elite summer-league baseball team and a rich girl vacationing on Cape Cod. [MASSACHUSETTS]
    2003 - Brush With Fate. (98 minutes) Director: Brent Shields. Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Glenn Close, Thomas Gibston, Phyllida Law, Kelly Macdonald,, Patrick Bergin. Summary: Based on the Susan Vreeland novel "Girl In Hyacinth Blue," this movie tells of how the impoverished Dutch artist, Vermeer, picture the image of his daughter seated at an open window. Painted in love, sold in desperation, bought in passion, and stolen in greed, the painting's history and the role it played in the lives of those who owned it is revealed in flashback by Cornelia Engelbrecht, a reclusive historian, to an art educator at her college in Massachusetts. [HOLLAND; MASSACHUSETTS]
    2003 - Mona Lisa Smile. (119 minutes) Director: Mike Newell. Cast: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal. Summary: In 1953, a California university college professor accepts a position as art history professor at Wellesley College, a woman's college in Massachusetts, attempting to bring her brand of interpreting life to the women who were preparing for the life of wife, mother, and business supporters to their prospective husbands. What did women want in life and romance in 1953? [MASSACHUSETTS; CALIFORNIA]
    2004 - Passionada.(104 minutes) Director: Dan Ireland. Cast: Jason Isaacs, Sofia Milos, Emmy Rossum, Theresa Russell. Summary: A New Bedford, Massachusetts widow, Celia, refuses to date even years after her husband, a Portuguese fisherman is lost at sea. Her daughter, Vicky, tries to get her to date. While singing passionate Portuguese songs at a local nightclub, Celia meets Charlie, a charming Englishman who is a poor card counting gambler visiting wealthy friends. [MASSACHUSETTS]
    
    MICHIGAN
    
    1942 -
    The Male Animal. (101 minutes) Director: Elliott Nugent. Cast: Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson, Eugene Pallette, Herbert Anderson, Don DeFore, Hattie McDaniel. Summary: It's Homecoming weekend at Midwestern University playing Michigan and the life of mild-mannered college instructor Tommy Turner turns topsy-turvy as the trustee's search for Communist sentiment raises the question of a college airing the ideas of all people, even that of Vanzetti; the return of his wife's former football hero boyfriend after 6 years of marriage questioning his manhood and mating strength; and a campus editorialist praising unpolitical ideals of Turner almost costing him his job and recent promotion. [MICHIGAN]
    1983 - The Big Chill. (103 minutes) Director: Lawrence Kasdan. Cast: Tom Berenger, William Hurt, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, JoBeth Williams, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly. Summary: A group of 1960s Michigan college friends who were anti-establishment have a weekend reunion where they re-examine their lives when they attend the funeral of one of their friends. [MICHIGAN]
    1983 - Tiger Town. (76 minutes) Director: Alan Shapiro. Cast: Roy Scheider, Justin Henry. Summary: A young boy "wishes" a legendary baseball player in his last year to success. [MICHIGAN]
    1987 - Christine. (111 minutes) Director: John Carpenter. Cast: Keith Gordon, John Stockwell. Summary: A 1958 Plymouth Fury has spooky powers. [based on a Stephen King novel] [MICHIGAN]
    1987 - The Dollmaker. (140 minutes) Director: Donald Petrie. Cast: Jane Fonda, Amanda Plummer. Summary: The 1944 life of Gertie Nevels from Kentucky. [MICHIGAN]
    1988 - Tucker: A Man and His Dream. (130 minutes) Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Cast: Jeff Bridges, Frederic Forrest, Joan Allen, Dean Stockwell, Martin Landau, Mako, Lloyd Bridges, Christian Slater. Summary: Based on the life of Preston Tucker, an entrepreneur and the designer of a 1940s automobile built to compete with the big three automakers. [MICHIGAN]
    1990 - Stanley and Iris. (114 minutes) Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: Jane Fonda, Robert DeNiro, Feodor Chaliapin, Martha Plimpton, Swoosie Kurtz, Harley Cross, Jamey Sheridan. Summary: In a New England town, a recently widowed factory bakery worker raising two children with her sister and brother-in-law living with them, attempts to teach an illiterate fellow-worker to read which turns his life around making him independent, getting a job in Detroit, Michigan with prospects of marriage for her and a new home in Detroit for her family. [MICHIGAN; NEW ENGLAND]
    1991 - V. I. Warshawksi. (95 minutes) Director: Jeff Kanew. Cast: Kathleen Turner, Jay O. Sanders, Charles Durning, Angela Goethals, Frederick Coffin. Summary: In Michigan, a female detective is hired by the daughter of a pro hockey player who believes he was murdered. [MICHIGAN]
    1992 - Beverly Hills Cop. (105 minutes) Director: Martin Brest. Cast: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold. [MISSOURI]
    1998 - Out of Sight. (123 minutes) Director: Charles Kiselyak. Cast: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Dennis Farina. [MICHIGAN]
    1999 - Color of Courage. (92 minutes) Director: Lee Rose. Cast: Linda Hamilton, Lynn Whitfield, Bruce Greenwood. Summary: The 1944 Sipes v. McGhee case where a black family moves into a Detroit neighborhood that is restricted by race. [MICHIGAN]
    1999 - Life and Times of Hank Greenberg. (95 minutes) [MISSOURI]
    2000 - For Love of the Game. (138 minutes) Director: Sam Raimi. Cast: Kevin Costner, Kelly Preston. Summary: A veteran pitcher for the Detroit Tigers must decide whether to be traded when the team is sold or to leave the game of baseball. [based on a Michael Shaara novel] [MICHIGAN]
    2001 - Exit Wounds. (121 minutes) Director: Andrzej Bartkowlak. Cast: Steven Seagal, DMX, Isaiah Washington. [MICHIGAN]
    
    MINNESOTA
    
    1934 - Our Daily Bread. (84 minutes) Director: King Vidor: Cast: Karen Morley, Tom Keene, John Qualen. Summary: Set in a fictitious Centre County in Ottaway Township, this social drama independently produced and directed by King Vidor focuses on a young couple during the Depression attempting to make a go of a communal farm society with city folk sharing their skills, trades, and ingenuity to survive from the land. [IOWA; MINNESOTA, OREGON, CALIFORNIA mentioned in the dialogue]
    1939 - Second Fiddle. (87 minutes) Director: Sidney Lanfield. Cast: Tyrone Power, Sonja Henie, Rudy Vallee. Summary: Spoof of the search for the right actress to play Scarlett O'Hara. [MINNESOTA]
    1972 - Neil Simon's The Heartbreak Kid. (106 minutes) Cast: C Florida. [MINNESOTA]
    1976 - Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings. (121 minutes) Director: John Badham. Cast: Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones. Summary: Based on thenovel by William Brashler, this movie tells of a group of 1930's spirited renegade Negro ballplayers leave the Black League to begin their own team traveling through the Midwest states of Ohio, Kentucky, Minnesota, Iowa as they barnstorm other teams and fight against the unfair rules and poor treatment inflicted upon them by their Negro League owners. [OHIO; KENTUCKY; IOWA; MINNESOTA]
    1984 - Wild Rose. (96 minutes) Director: John Hanson. Cast: Lisa Eichhorn, Tom Bower. Summary: A social commentary and love story set in and around the Minnesota iron ore fields. [MINNESOTA]
    1987 - Stone Fox. (96 minutes) Director: Harvey Hart. Cast: Buddy Ebsen, Joey Cramer, Belinda Montgomery, Gordon Tootoosis, O.J. Dog. Summary: Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's Wyoming cattle ranch with the purse from a dog sled race he enters. [MINNESOTA]
    1992 - Mighty Ducks. (93 minutes) Director: Stephen Herek. Cast: Emilio Estevez, Joss Ackland, Lane Smith, Heidi Kling. Summary: A fast-living lawyer is assigned 500 hours of community service to coach a hockey team composed of the league's misfits. [MINNESOTA]
    1993 - Grumpy Old Men. (104 minutes) Director: Donald Petrie. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Ossie Davis, Daryl Hannah, Burgess Meredith. Summary: Two older men in Wabasha, Minnesota who are longtime childhood friends and neighbors fight over the attentions of a new female neighbor. [MINNESOTA]
    1993 - Untamed Heart. (102 minutes) Director: Tony Bill. Cast: Christian Slater, Marisa Tomei, Rosie Perez, Kyle Secor. Summary: A Minneapolis waitress falls for the diner's busboy. [MINNESOTA]
    1994 - Iron Will. (97 minutes) Director: Charles Haid. Cast: MacKenzie Astin, Kevin Spacey, David Ogden Stiers. Summary: Teenager enters grueling dogsled race to win money that will save the family farm. [MINNESOTA]
    1994 - Little Big League. (120 minutes) Director: Andrew Schernman. Cast: Luke Edwards, Timothy Busfield, Jason Robards, John Ashton. [MINNESOTA]
    1995 - Grumpier Old Men. (105 minutes) Director: Howard Deutch. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Sophia Loren, Daryl Hannah, Burgess Meredith, Kevin Pollak. Summary: Two cranky older men in Wabasha, Minnesota who are longtime childhood friends and neighbors are concerned about their bait shop being turned into an Italian restaurant by a newcomer to town. [MINNESOTA]
    1999 - Drop Dead Gorgeous. (98 minutes) Director: Michael Patrick Jann. Cast: Kirstie Alley, Ellen Barkin, Kirsten Dunst. Summary: Story of a teen pageant in a small-minded town in Minnesota. [MINNESOTA]
    2000 - Fargo. (98 minutes) Director: Joel Coen. Cast: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy. Summary: Film noir story of a car salesman who plans to have his wife kidnapped to get the ransom money provided by her wealthy father. Nothing goes as planned! [MINNESOTA]
    MISSISSIPPI
    
    1949 - Pinky. (102 minutes) Director: Elia Kazan. Cast: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan, Arthur Hunnicutt. Summary: A light-skinned black woman, sent to Boston by her grandmother for an education and training as a nurse, returns to Mississippi revealing that she has been passing for white, fallen in love with a white doctor, and plans to return to the North. When she inherits property from a neighbor and family friend and has it contested in court, she fights it in open court for all to see, then begins a clinic and nursery school for black children. [MISSISSIPPI]
    1951 - Showboat. (115 minutes) Director: George Sidney. Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel. Summary: Life and times on a 1900s showboat along the Mississippi. [MISSISSIPPI]
    1956 - Baby Doll. (114 minutes) Director: Elia Kazan. Cast: Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach, Karl Malden, Mildred Dunnock, Lonny Chapman, Rip Torn. Summary: Includes a child bride who sleeps in a crib, her lusting husband, and a scheming business rival for this story. [based on a Tennessee Williams work] [MISSISSIPPI]
    1958 - The Long, Hot Summer. (115 minutes) Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles, Anthony Franciosa, Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury. Summary: Based on William Faulkner's novel of a drifter in town fascinates the women, alienates the men, and aggravates the town's monied redneck. [MISSISSIPPI]
    1961 - Summer and Smoke. Cast: Geraldine Page, Laurence Harvey. Summary: In 1916 Mississippi, a spinster seeks love but her parents are narrow-minded. [based on a Tennessee Williams work] [MISSISSIPPI]
    1966 - This Property Is Condemned. (109 minutes) Director: Sydney Pollard. Cast: Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Kate Reid, Charles Bronson. Summary: A southern girl casts a spell of romance of a stranger in town, there to lay off local railroaders, [based on a Tennessee Williams novel] [MISSISSIPPI]
    1967 - In the Heat of the Night. (109 minutes) Director: Norman Jewison. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger. Summary: In Sparta, Mississippi, racial tension heats up when a rural southern sheriff and a black northern detective collaborate to solve a murder. [MISSISSIPPI]
    1969 - The Reivers. (107 minutes) Director: Mark Rydell. Cast: Steve McQueen, Rupert Crosse. Summary: In 1905, young boy, with the help of his older friends "borrows" an automobile and heads for fun and adventure in Mississippi.[based on a William Faulkner tale] [MISSISSIPPI]
    1974 - Thieves Like Us. (123 minutes) Cast: Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall. Summary: Gangsters in Mississippi during the Depression. [MISSISSIPPI]
    1978 - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. (150 minutes) Director: Jack Smight. Cast: Claudia McNeil, Janet MacLachlan, Robert Christian, Morgan Freeman. Summary: A proud black family owning their own land in Depression-era Mississippi face obstacles in their community. [MISSISSIPPI]
    1980 - Private Benjamin. (110 minutes) Director: Howard Zieff. Cast: Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante, Robert Webber, Sam Wanamaker. Summary: A spoiled Philadelphia Jewish American Princess whose husband dies on her wedding night, has lost her sense of identity, joins the Army, and is stationed at Fort Biloxi, Mississippi. [MISSISSIPPI]
    1985 - And the Children Shall Lead. (58 minutes) (Wonderworks series) Cast: Danny Glover, LeVar Burton, Denise Nicholas, Beah Richards, Andrew Prine, Whitman Mayo, Amanda Peterson, Jamila Perry, Pam Potillo. Summary: In 1964 Catesville, Mississippi, friction resulsts between racial groups when the Freedom riders and civil rights activists come to town to create a voter registration drive. [MISSISSIPPI]
    1985 - The Long Hot Summer. (193 minutes) Director: Stuart Cooper. Cast: Ava Gardner, Judith Ivey, Don Johnson, Jason Robards. Summary: A drifter in town fascinates the women, alienates the men, and aggravates the town's monied redneck. [based on a William Faulkner novel] [MISSISSIPPI]
    1988 - Mississippi Burning. (127 minutes) Director: Alan Parker. Cast: Willem DaFoe, Gene Hackman, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey. Summary: What might have happened in 1964 Mississippi if when three civil rights activists turned up missing in Mississippi. [MISSISSIPPI]
    1989 - Ida B. Wells - A Passion For Justice. (58 minutes) Narrated by: Al Freeman, Jr. [MISSISSIPPI]
    1992 - Mississippi Masala. (117 minutes) Director: Mira Nair. Cast: Denzel Washington, Roshan Seth, Sarita Choudhury, Charles Dutton, Tico Wells, Joe Seneca. Summary: Tomance between a black businessman and an Indian immigrant who become outcasts in their town because of racial prejudice. [MISSISSIPPI]
    1993 - Adventures of Huck Finn. (108 minutes) Director: Stephen Sommers. Cast: Elijah Wood, Courtney B. Vance, Jason Robards, Anne Heche. Summary: A young boy learns many lessons in life while traveling along the Mississippi River. [based on the work of Mark Twain] [MISSISSIPPI]
    1993 - Intruder in the Night. (90 minutes) Cast: David Brian, Claude Jarman. [MISSISSIPPI]
    1995 - Once Upon A Time When We Were Colored. (113 minutes) Director: Tim Reid. Cast: Al Freeman, Jr., Phylicia Rashad. [MISSISSIPPI]
    1996 - A Time to Kill. (150 minutes) Director: Joel Schumacher. Cast: Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Spacey, Ashley Judd. Summary: A Mississippi attorney defends a factory worker who killed the two racist thugs that had raped his ten-year old daughter. [based on a John Grisham novel] [MISSISSIPPI]
    1997 - The Chamber. (113 minutes) Cast: Chris O'Donnell, Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway. Summary: A grandson lawyer pleads a case for clemency for his one-time klansman grandfather. (John Grisham novel) [MISSISSIPPI]
    1997 - Ghosts of Mississippi. (131 minutes) Director: Rob Reiner. Cast: Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, James Woods, Craig T. Nelson. Summary: Tells of the 1963 murder of civil-rights activist Medgar Evers and the trial 30 years later that puts accused killer Byron De La Beckwith behind bars. [MISSISSIPPI]
    1999 - Down in the Delta. (111 minutes) Director: Maya Angelou. Cast: Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman, Jr., Esther Rolle, Wesley Snipes. Summary: A Chicago grandmother, wanting to save her daughter and grandchildren from the dangers of the street, sends them to live in rural Mississippi with her brother-in-law. [MISSISSIPPI]
    2000 - Freedom Song. (117 minutes) Director: Phil Alden Robinson. Cast: Danny Glover, Vondie Curtis-Hall. Summary: Humorous and emotional intesifying interpretation of the civil rights movement focusing mostly on the teenagers. [MISSISSIPPI]
    2000 - O Brother, Where Art Thou?. (103 minutes) Director: Joel Coen. Cast: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Holly Hunter, John Goodman. Summary: Based on the travels of Ulysses, a Mississippi prison farm convict escapes the rock gang chained to two other convicts to dig up their stashed loot before a flood covers it forever. Along the road, they meet "the sirens" and "the cyclops" as they hit the road. [MISSISSIPPI]
    MISSOURI
    
    1941 - Sullivan's Travels. (90 minutes) Director: Preston Sturges. Cast: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Porter Hall, Eric Blore, Jimmy Conlin. Summary: Spoof of Hollywood when a film director tries to experiment finding out what life outside Tinseltown is really like as he lives as a tramp, gets mugged, turns up dead, and gets sent to hard labor for 6 years. He realizes that laughter, not deep thoughts are what the people of the time need. [CALIFORNIA; LAS VEGAS, NEVADA; KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI]
    1945 - Murder, He Says. (125 minutes) Director: George Marshall. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main. Summary: A poll taker appears in the Ozark town of Plainville looking for a colleague who has never finished his poll of the area, becomes involved with the Fleagle family's attempts to claim $70,000 of stolen money. [OZARKS . . MISSOURI; ARKANSAS] (Similarities to "Arsenic and Old Lace")
    1948 - The Paleface. (91 minutes) Director: Norman Mc Leod. Cast: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong. Summary: A cowardly dentist marries Calamity Jane and becomes a celebrated gunslinger. [Calamity Jane was born in Missouri] [MISSOURI]
    1948 - Red River. (134 minutes) Director: Cast: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru. Summary: Across the Chisholm Trail on a cattle drive. [MISSOURI]
    1952 - The Big Sky. (122 minutes) Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Arthur Hunnicutt, Elizabeth Treatt. Summary: In 1832 Louisville, Kentucky, one man meets another along the road. They become friends and move on to St. Louis, Missouri where they join a group of French fur traders planning to explore the upper regions of the Missouri River and across 2000 miles through Indian country to Montana to trade with the Blackfoot with the help of a kidnapped Indian princess being returned to her people. [MISSOURI]
    1957 - Spirit of St. Louis. (138 minutes) Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: James Stewart, Patricia Smith. Summary: Story of the 1927 flight of Charles Lindbergh from New York to Paris. [MISSOURI]
    1962 - Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation. (116 minutes) Director: Henry Koster. Cast: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Marie Wilson, Fabian, John Saxon. Summary: A Missouri banker bonds with his children and grandchildren during a week long family vacation at a beach house near San Francisco when his two married daughters, their husbands and children along his wife and two teenage children who live at home meet the challenges of living together in a house with poor plumbing. [MISSOURI]
    1963 - How the West Was Won. (155 minutes) Filmed in Cinerama with segments directed by Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, John Ford. Cast: Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, John Wayne, Debbie Reynolds, Walter Brennan, Karl Malden, Richard Widmark, Robert Preston, George Peppard, Carolyn Jones, Carroll Baker. Summary: Civilization moves westward along the Erie Canal; across the plains; building the railroads; creating settlements in the West under law and order. [NEW YORK, TEXAS, MISSOURI, CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA, OHIO]
    1966 - The Rare Breed. (108 minutes) Director: Andrew V. McLaglen. Cast: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Juliet Mills, Jack Elam, Ben Johnson. Summary: In 1884 Kansas City, Missouri, an Englishwoman with a new breed of short-horned cattle plans to introduce it to the Texas range. [MISSOURI/TEXAS]
    1967 - Bonnie and Clyde. (111 minutes) Director: Arthur Penn. Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Gene Wilder. Summary: Adventures of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. [MISSOURI]
    1972 - Great Northfield Minnesota Raid. (91 minutes) Director: Phil Kaufman. Cast: Cliff Robertson, Robert Duvall, Luke Askew. Summary: Adventures of Jesse James and Cole Younger. [MISSOURI] LI>1973 - Dillinger. (minutes) Director: Cast: Warren Oates. Summary: The search for bank robber John Dillinger in Missouri during the Depression.<
    1974 - Seven Alone. (95 minutes) Director: Cast: Dewey Martin, Anne Collings, Aldo Ray. Summary: 1843 migration of the Sager family from Missouri to Oregon. [MISSOURI]
    1976 - Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings. (121 minutes) Director: John Badham. Cast: Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones. Summary: Based on thenovel by William Brashler, this movie tells of a group of 1930's spirited renegade Negro ballplayers leave the Black League to begin their own team traveling through the Midwest states of Ohio, Kentucky, Minnesota, Iowa as they barnstorm other teams and fight against the unfair rules and poor treatment inflicted upon them by their Negro League owners. [OHIO; KENTUCKY; IOWA; MINNESOTA]
    1976 - The Missouri Breaks. (126 minutes) Director: Arthur Penn. Cast: Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid. Summary: Story of an outlaw and a bounty hunter in 1880s Missouri. [MISSOURI]
    1976 - The Outlaw Josey Wales. (135 minutes) Director: Clint Eastwood. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George, Bill McKinney, John Vernon, John Mitchum, John Russell. Summary: When a farmer's family is murdered by Red Legs, a group of cutthroats allied with the Union Army, he joins the Confederacy to seek revenge. [MISSOURI]
    1984 - Words by Heart. (116 minutes) Director: Robert Thompson. Cast: Alfre Woodard, Charlotte Rae, Robert Hooks. Summary: The only black family living in an all-white Missouri town faces prejudice at the turn of the century. [A WoNderworks presentation based on the Ouida Sebestyen book] [MISSOURI]
    1986 - Jesse James. (105 minutes) Director: Henry King. Cast: Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly. [MISSOURI]
    1990 - White Palace. (106 minutes) Director: Luis Mandoki. Cast: Susan Sarandon, James Spader, Jason Alexander, Kathy Bates, Eileen Brennan, Steven Hill, Renee Taylor. Summary: In Missouri, a widowed yuppie falls in love with an older waitress. [MISSOURI]
    1992 - Legends of the American West. (96 minutes) Summary: Colorado, New Mexico, Missouri, Oklahoma, California and Jesse James; Billy, the Kid; Sitting Bull; Geronimo. [MISSOURI]
    1994 - Geronimo. (115 minutes) Director: Walter Hill. Cast: Jason Patric, Robert Duvall, Gene Hackman. [MISSOURI]
    1994 - Paul Bunyan. (27 minutes) [MISSOURI]
    2000 - Ride With the Devil. (139 minutes) Director: Ang Lee. Cast: Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jewel, Jeffrey Wright. [MISSOURI]
    2001 - Lightning: Fire from the Sky. Cast: John Schneider, Jesse Eisenberg, Stacy Keach. Summary: A father and his estranged son try to save their Missouri town from a destructive storm and a land developer. [MISSOURI]
    MONTANA
    
    1936 - The Plainsman. (115 minutes) Director: Cecil B. DeMille. Cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford, Porter Hall. Summary: During post-Civil War times in the Midwest, conflict with the Native Americans, George Armstrong Custer, Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane and the Battle of Little Bighorn. [MONTANA]
    1972 The Cowboys. (135 minutes) Director: Mark Rydell. Cast: John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst. Summary: A 60-year old rancher in Montana hires a group of young school boys to get his herd to market when a gold rush rumor surfaces near Ruby River. [MONTANA]
    1973 - Badlands. (95 minutes) Director: Terrence Malick. Cast: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Alan Vint. Summary: Based on the true killing rampages of lost souls - Charles Starkweather, a young misfit garbageman, and Carol Fugate, a 15-year old lovesick girl, from South Dakota, Montana, through Nebraska and neighboring states. [NEBRASKA; SOUTH DAKOTA; MONTANA]
    1974 - I Will Fight No More Forever. (100 minutes) Director: Richard T. Heffron. Cast: James Whitmore, Ned Romero, Sam Elliott, Nick Ramus. Summary: Chief Joseph, Nez Perce of Montana, faces General Oliver Howard and his calvarymen. [MONTANA]
    1976 - The Missouri Breaks. (126 minutes) Director: Arthur Penn. Cast: Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid. Summary: Story of an outlaw and a bounty hunter in the 1880s along the Missouri River. [MONTANA]
    1984 - Stone Boy. (93 minutes) Director: Christopher Cain. Cast: Glenn Close, Robert Duvall, Linda Hamilton, Wilfred Brimley. Summary: After a boy accidentally shoots his older brother whom he loved, he begins to lose touch with reality. [MONTANA]
    1988 - Lonesome Dove. (360 minutes) Cast: Robert Duvall, Danny Glover, Tommy Lee Jones, Angelica Huston. Summary: A pair of aging Texas Rangers have one last adventure on a cattle drive across Montana. [based on the work of Larry McMurtry] [MONTANA]
    1992 - A River Runs Through It. (124 minutes) Director: Robert Redford. Cast: Tom Skerritt, Brad Pitt, Craig Sheffer, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Lloyd, Edie McClurg. Summary: A young man finds peace and friendship in fly-fishing [based on a Norman Maclean memoir] [MONTANA]
    1993 - Return to Lonesome Dove. (330 minutes) Director: Mike Robe. Cast: Jon Voight, Barbara Hershey, Rick Schroder, Lou Gossett Jr., William L. Petersen, Oliver Reed, Reese Witherspoon, C. C. H. Pounder. Summary: Captain Call and his son become involved in a range war. [MONTANA]
    1994 - Legends of the Fall. (135 minutes) Director: Edward Zwick. Cast: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Julia Ormond, Henry Thomas. Summary: A U. S. Cavalry officer raiseing his three sons near the Montana Rockies faces sibling rivalry. [MONTANA]
    1998 - The Patriot. Director: Cast: Steven Seagal. [MONTANA]
    1999 - The Horse Whisperer. (169 minutes) Director: Robert Redford. Cast: Robert Redford, Kirstin Scott, Dianne Wiest. Summary: Can a Montana horse trainer bring a 14-year old girl who suffered in a terrible horse accident losing her leg and her horse back together? [MONTANA]
    
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