SWEET LAND

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• Release Year: 2005
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Plot: Winner of multiple film festival awards - including the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature - Sweet Land is 'a lovely, old-fashioned farm romance quietly doubling as a commentary on immigration and American identity' (The Boston Globe). 'Intelligently written, brilliantly cast' (Variety) and 'beautifully shot' (Chicago Tribune), this haunting tale of love, struggle and endurance offers an 'emotion-packed' (The Hollywood Reporter) view of this country often overlooked by the history books.; ; Inge (Elizabeth Reaser) is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf (Tim Guinee), a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI, anti-German climate, the local minister (John Heard) openly forbids the marriage. Inge and Olaf fall in love despite the town's disapproval. But when the town banker (Ned Beatty) attempts to foreclose on the farm of his friend Frandsen (Alan Cumming), Olaf takes a stand...and the community unites around the young couple, finally accepting Inge as one of their own.
• Cast: Elizabeth Reaser, Lois Smith, Patrick Heusinger, Stephen Pelinski, Tim Guinee, Robert Hogan, Alan Cumming, Paul Sand, Jodie Markell, Sage Kermes, Kirsten Frantzich, Stephen Yoakam, Karen Landry, James Cada, Debbie DeLisi, Charlotta Mohlin, Tom Gilroy, James Bakkom, John Heard, John Paul Gamoke, Ned Beatty, Barbara Kingsley, Stephen D'Ambrose, Alex Kingston, Patrick Coyle, Raye Birk, Dick Reignier, Palmer Grinager, Tony Papenfuss, Wayne A. Evenson, Jamie Brockhohn, Jim Brockhohn, Jimmy Brockhohn, Joseph Courtemanche, Frank Crandell, Christopher Day, Joel Edwards, Matthew Feeney, Corbin Groothuis, Maximilian Selim, Joel Thingvall, Ken Vierling, Will Weaver, Jim Westcott, Ali Selim
• Director: Ali Selim
• Runtime: 1:51
• Company: LaSalleHolland Production, Beautiful Motion Pictures, 120 dB Films, Liebermania, Channel Z Films, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie