Troublesome Creek - A Midwestern
by Steven Ascher, Jeanne Jordan
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Actor: Dean Elias, Marge HaroldDirector: Jeanne Jordan, Steven Ascher
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
Cinematographer: Steven Ascher
Composer: Sheldon Mirowitz
Editor: Jeanne Jordan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-14
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Fox Lorber
Movie Reviews of Troublesome Creek - A Midwestern
Movie Review: Real People, Real Awesome Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This film was actually taped in my community. Many of my classmates can be seen in the sale scenes. I still remember the buzz going around the town about the film. I love it, and if you love it to, feel free to visit Anita, Iowa.
Summary of Troublesome Creek - A Midwestern
Red River High Noon Gunsmoke - Westerns where the bad guys sometimes won but never prevailed. Troublesome Creek is a Midwestern. It's the story of the Jordan family's struggle to save their Iowa farm. From crossing the Mississippi in 1867 to driving to Daddy Date Night in 1967. From fighting off the Crooked Creek Gang in the 1880s to fighting off the bank today. Now with their backs against the wall the Jordans confront the very worst with their very best. Troublesome Creek is wry and emotional without being sentimental. It's a cliffhanger about history loss and the humor and deep character that settled America and now preside at its unsettling. System Requirements:Running Time 88 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating:?UNRATED UPC:?720917548326 Manufacturer No:?FLV5483Filmmaker Jeanne Jordan and her husband/coworker Steven Ascher decided to turn a 1990 visit to Jordan's parents--lifelong Iowa farmers--into the beginnings of a personal, self-deprecating film essay about one chapter in the plight of American family farms. Besieged with bank debt and ignored by a marketplace that favors huge corporate crop growers, the Jordans call it quits after spending their entire lives helping to feed this nation. Rather than rant about it, however, Jordan, who narrates the film and is often seen on camera with the rest of her rallying relatives, creates with Ascher a bemused, cinematic sigh over the decline of rural family life and the heroic dreams that fuel it. Watching as her parents silently watch old Westerns on TV--the elder couple's favorite pastime--Jordan notes how a life spent in heroic accord with the seasons (and on the wrong end of the global economy) is like the life of a movie cowboy who takes his stands and faces his showdowns. As we witness the Jordans dismantle their lives, resign themselves to retirement, and auction off most of their things, the family's sadness is palpable. But so is a certain bittersweet freedom that comes with change. In the end, Troublesome Creek is not only about farming but about the mutable nature, for better or worse, of everything in American life. --Tom Keogh
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