East of Middle West

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't...

After stalking and saving the life of her favorite fiction author in a car accident, his manic obsessor holds him captive in her remote Colorado...

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin...

A woman returns to her hometown for her father's funeral. A couple strike a deal with her to help her fund the funeral service.

Ada, a reserved young woman with a passion for entomology, travels north with Marissa, her free-spirited musician girlfriend. She's finally meeting...

A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.

Tillie's lonely life as a roadkill removal worker is destabilized when Wanda, a lively stranger, arrives in town.

Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's...

On his family's farm in rural Iowa, young Jack Gudmanson is wrestling with his sexual identity, not an easy thing to do in the macho world of the...

When a junior high student in 1963 suspects his teacher of being a communist, he investigates the truth to gain approval from his father.

The farmhouse of a rural family is declared unfit for habitation. While part of the family fights to save the space their ancestors built, the...