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BASEketball
Wisconsin The 1990sTwo guys invented a game... and turned the sports world upside down! — Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop & Remer, invent a new game playing basketball, using baseball rules. When the game becomes a huge success, they, along with a billionaire's help, form the Professional Baseketball League where everyone gets the same pay and no team can change cities. Theirs is the only team standing in the way of major rule changes that the owner of a rival team wants to institute.
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Contact
Wisconsin The 1990sIf it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space. — Contact is a science fiction film about an encounter with alien intelligence. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan the film starred Jodie Foster as the one chosen scientist who must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
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Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story
Wisconsin The 1990sTrue crime story of a Wisconsin teacher's aide who hired teenaged students to murder her estranged husband.
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Tommy Boy
Wisconsin The 1990sIf at first you don't succeed, lower your standards. — To save the family business, two ne’er-do-well traveling salesmen hit the road with disastrously funny consequences.
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Family of Cops
WisconsinPaul Fein is a veteran police detective whose son Eddie is also a cop. Paul is assigned to investigate the murder of a prominent businessman, and he soon learns that the field of suspects has been narrowed down to two—the victim's sexually freewheeling wife Anna, and Paul's wild-child daughter Jackie. Neither Paul nor Eddie believe that Jackie could have committed the murder, and soon Paul is using himself as a decoy in a bid to find out more about what Anna does and doesn't know about her husband's death.
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The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer
Wisconsin The 1980s The 1990sThe fictionalized story of the murders. — Based on the life of notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who murdered 17 men and ate many of them before he was caught in 1991.
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Wayne's World
Wisconsin The 1990sYou'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll hurl. — The adventures of two amiably aimless metal-head friends, Wayne and Garth. From Wayne's basement, the pair broadcast a talk-show called "Wayne's World" on local public access television. The show comes to the attention of a sleazy network executive who wants to produce a big-budget version of "Wayne's World"—and he also wants Wayne's girlfriend, a rock singer named Cassandra. Wayne and Garth have to battle the executive not only to save their show, but also Cassandra.
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A League of Their Own
Wisconsin The 1940s The 1980sTo achieve the incredible, you have to attempt the impossible. — As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan on their way to fame.
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The Great Outdoors
Wisconsin The 1980sThe wildlife is wild, but his brother-in-law in unbearable. — It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishing at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin gets crashed by Connie's obnoxious brother-in-law, Roman Craig, his wife, Kate, and the couple's two daughters. As the excursion wears on, the Ripleys find themselves at odds with the stuffy Craig family.
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For Keeps
WisconsinFrom Backpacks to Strollers — Darcy, editor at her highschool paper, and her long-term boyfriend Stan are in their last months of school and already have found places in good colleges. Recently they started to sleep with each other and, surprise, surprise, Darcy gets pregnant. Neither Darcy's mother, who was left by her husband and had to bring up Darcy alone, nor Stan's catholic parents are very supportive and urge them to h
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Project X
Wisconsin The 1980sWhen the Air Force assigned Jimmy Garrett to a top secret project, he didn't know what he was in for. Neither did they. — A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious 'Project X'. Getting to know the chimps fairly well, he begins to suspect there is more to the secret project than he is being told.
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Blood Harvest
WisconsinA beautiful young girl returns to her peaceful rural home town to find that the house she grew up in has been defaced, her parents are missing, and the whole town hates her father, a bank supervisor who foreclosed on many of the local farms. Only "Marvelous Mervo," who wanders around town dressed in a clown's suit with a permanent grin painted on his face, seems happy to see her. As Mervo's brother tries to rekindle his love affair with Jill, those closest to her are slaughtered like cattle, one by one.
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Blood Hook
Wisconsin The 1980s The 1960sFishing was never like this! — During a local fishing contest, people are being mysteriously dragged into the lake and killed by a giant fish hook. After a sufficient number of deaths, the killer is finally revealed.
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Starman
Wisconsin The 1980sIn 1977 Voyager II was launched into space, inviting all lifeforms in the universe to visit our planet. Get ready. Company's coming. — When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.
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A Woman Called Golda
Wisconsin The 1970s The 1960sThe story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Stroszek
Wisconsin The 20th CenturyA Ballad — Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.
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The Giant Spider Invasion
WisconsinCreeping!...Crawling!...Crushing! — A black hole hits North Wisconsin and opens a door to other dimensions. Giant 15 meter spiders emerge from it, who have an appetite for human flesh! Dr. Jenny Langer and Dr. Vance from NASA try to save the world.
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Homer
WisconsinHomer is 18... and he wants to keep the feeling of the first time going for the rest of his life
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Rascal
Wisconsin The 1910s...the masked bandit — A comedy filled with tenderness as a baby raccoon snuggles his way into the life of a lonely boy. He becomes the boy's only companion during his father's frequent absences. Because of Rascal, both father and son realize their responsibility to each other
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All Mine to Give
Wisconsin The 1850sSIX KIDS ON A TRUE AND WONDERFUL ADVENTURE! — This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850s. They work very hard and become welcome citizens of their new town, Eureka. They have six children. They prosper in the husband's boat-building business. But when their eldest is 12, tragedy strikes the family, and the 12-year-old is burdened with a terrible task which he handles as well as any adult could.
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Mister Cory
WisconsinAn opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.
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The Whip Hand
WisconsinSCIENCE HARNESSED BY MADMEN TO WIPE OUT AMERICA'S MILLIONS! — A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.
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Beyond the Forest
WisconsinNobody's as good as Bette when she's bad! — Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
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Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
WisconsinM-G-M's true-to-life drama — Welcome to Fuller Junction, Wisconsin, a friendly small town settled by Norwegian farmers. Here we see the exploits of two young cousins, Selma and Arnold, who learn about their world and experience the ups and downs of life as the season pass.
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The Shining Hour
WisconsinA nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
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Outcast
WisconsinA physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.
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Come and Get It
Wisconsin The 1900s The 1880sYOUTH SACRIFICED! ON THE ALTAR OF POWER! — An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
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Public Hero Number 1
WisconsinFACTS!...NEVER BEFORE TOLD! — G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
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The Way of All Flesh
Wisconsin The 1900sThe story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He is tasked with transporting $1,000 in securities to Chicago. On the train he meets a blond seductress who convinces him to buy her a bottle of champagne, and takes him to a saloon. The next morning he awakes alone in a dilapidated bedroom and without the securities.
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