101 Films & TV Shows Set In Minnesota
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The Emigrants
Minnesota The 19th CenturyBased on the book by Vilhelm Moberg (published in 1949) depicting a few people emigrating from Sweden to the United States in the 1800s, and a remake of the 1971 film of the same name.
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Clouds
Minnesota The 2010sDon't wait for tomorrow to live for today — Young musician Zach Sobiech discovers his cancer has spread, leaving him just a few months to live. With limited time, he follows his dream and makes an album, unaware that it will soon be a viral music phenomenon.
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A Million Little Pieces
Minnesota The 1990sI'm fine. — A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.
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The Perfection
Minnesota Massachusetts ShanghaiIt's time to face the music — When troubled musical prodigy Charlotte seeks out Elizabeth, the new star pupil of her former school, the encounter sends both musicians down a sinister path with shocking consequences.
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Strange Nature
MinnesotaStrange Nature — The first film to expose unsolved wildlife deformity outbreaks and where they may lead. Based on a true unsolved ecological mystery, thousands of hideously deformed frogs have turned up in the waters of Minnesota. As seen through the eyes of a one hit wonder single mother and her 11 year old son, a small town struggles with the unknown when the deadly mutations move beyond the ponds.
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Wonderstruck
Minnesota New Jersey The 1970s The 1920sIt's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. — The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
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The Founder
Minnesota Illinois Missouri Arizona California The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sRisk taker. Rule breaker. Game changer. — The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
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A Stray
MinnesotaTrying to outrun his bad luck, a young Muslim refugee in Minneapolis seems like he just might make it — until he crosses paths with a stray dog.
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Until Forever
Minnesota The 1990sLove knows no limit. — Until Forever: The Michael Boyum Story is a powerful, true account of one young man's courageous battle with leukemia and his journey of faith.
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Inside Out
Minnesota CaliforniaMeet the little voices inside your head. — Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Riley's guiding emotions— Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness—live in Headquarters, the control centre inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life and tries to keep things positive, but the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.
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Regression
Minnesota The 1990sFear always finds its victim — Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her father, John Gray, of an unspeakable crime. When John unexpectedly and without recollection admits guilt, renowned psychologist Dr. Raines is brought in to help him relive his memories and what they discover unmasks a horrifying nationwide mystery.
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The Public Domain
MinnesotaA bridge spanning a river collapses during rush hour. Eight years later, the lives of four people, impacted by the tragedy and on the run from their personal demons, intersect in THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, a Polish bar. It's the feast of St. Casimir, the Patron Saint of Poland, and the biggest party of the year in this Nordeast Minneapolis dive where desire, guilt, ambition and fear are served up with pierogies, Polish vodka, polka music and, maybe, a shot of redemption.
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The Unearthing
MinnesotaA teenage girl moves with her father for the summer to Stillwater, Minnesota. She meets two misfit kids and together they work to unearth a secret the town hides.
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Wild
Oregon Minnesota California The 1990sA woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.
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Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Tokyo Prefecture Minnesota North DakotaFrustrated with her mundane life, a Tokyo office worker becomes obsessed with a fictional movie that she mistakes for a documentary. Fixating on a scene where stolen cash is buried in North Dakota, she travels to America to find it.
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Life Partners
MinnesotaOne guy can ruin the perfect relationship. — A 29-year-old lawyer and her lesbian best friend experience a dramatic shift in their longtime bond after one enters a serious relationship.
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Best Man Down
MinnesotaA newlywed couple cancels their honeymoon and returns to the snowy Midwest to make the funeral arrangements for their best man, who died unexpectedly after their ceremony.
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Contagion
Minnesota California Georgia 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇲🇴 MacaoNothing spreads like fear — As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.
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Rio
🇧🇷 Brazil Minnesota1 out of every 8 Americans is afraid of flying. Most of them don't have feathers. — Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel, a lone female, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Blu and Linda go to meet her. Animal smugglers kidnap Blu and Jewel, but the pair soon escape and begin a perilous adventure back to freedom -- and Linda.
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Young Adult
Minnesota The 2010sEveryone gets old. Not everyone grows up. — A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.
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Stuck Between Stations
MinnesotaA decade after they graduated from high school and went their separate ways, Casper, a soldier haunted by the horrors of war, and Rebecca, a whip-smart graduate student with a shaky future, reunite by chance and get to know each other over the course of an accidental tour of the little-known underbelly of Minneapolis. The evening's odyssey includes a bar fight, a house party, a punk-rock circus, a spontaneous burglary, a home Casper did not know he had, and a cast of strange characters, unexpected allies and disappointing friends.
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Madness
Minnesota The 1990sFriends Jenna and Tarra are on their way to a cheerleading contest when they decide to stop at a gas station to help two guys, Oliver and Chad, who are experiencing some engine problems. What they don't know is that they are being watched by a group of deranged madman whose only intention is to hunt them down and kill them for pleasure. After being captured and locked up, survival is the only thing on the friends' minds, but just how far are they willing to go?
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A Serious Man
Minnesota The 1960s…seriously! — It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.
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New in Town
Minnesota FloridaShe's an executive on the move. But her career is taking her a little farther than she expected. — Lucy Hill is an ambitious up-and-coming executive living in Miami. She loves her shoes, she loves her cars and she loves climbing the corporate ladder. When she is offered a temporary assignment – in the middle of nowhere – to restructure a manufacturing plant, she jumps at the opportunity, knowing that a big promotion is close at hand. What begins as a straight-forward assignment becomes a life-changing experience as Lucy discovers greater meaning in her life and, most unexpectedly, the man of her dreams.
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An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong
MinnesotaBe Courageous, Be A Friend, Be yourself — A fourth grader and her friends deal with bullying from a more popular girl in their class.
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