Tractor with planter working on farmland under a blue sky.
Two elderly men with beards sitting indoors, one wearing a denim jacket and a red cap, the other holding a mug with teddy bear illustrations and wearing glasses.
Small town street with brick buildings, green awnings, parked motorcycle, and people sitting outside a café.

MONROVIA, INDIANA

RELEASED 2018, 143 MINUTES, COLOR

MONROVIA, INDIANA explores a small town in rural, mid-America and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity and authenticity are formed, experienced and lived along with conflicting stereotypes. The film gives a complex and nuanced view of daily life in Monrovia and provides some understanding of a way of life whose influence and force have not always been recognized or understood in the big cities on the east and west coasts of America and in other countries.

‘Monrovia, Indiana’ is an immersive wonder, thanks to Wiseman’s masterful ability to assemble images that lead from one painterly visual to the next.

–Eric Kohn, Indiewire

Every cliché and talking point I’ve absorbed about the American heartland since the last presidential election was challenged by Mr. Wiseman’s observations of democracy at work in a rural Midwestern town.

–A.O. Scott, The New York Times

One of Wiseman’s most beautiful films.

–Nicolas Rapold, Film Comment

Like all of Wiseman’s films, “Monrovia, Indiana” possesses almost meditative power.

–Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post

Funding for the film was provided by:
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Just Films / Ford Foundation
Public Broadcasting Service
Pershing Square Foundation
LEF Moving Image Fund

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