10 Films & TV Shows Set In Wisconsin During The 1990s
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Flags of Our Fathers
Wisconsin Massachusetts Illinois Arizona Texas The 1990s The 1950s The 1940sThey fight for their country but they die for their friends. — There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
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Dahmer
Wisconsin Ohio The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sThe mind is a place of its own. — On February 15, 1992 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, one of the world's most infamous serial killers, was convicted of 15 counts of murder and sentenced to 937 years in federal prison. This movie is based on events from his life. Certain characters and events are fictional.
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The Straight Story
Wisconsin Iowa The 1990sA true story that proves a little determination goes a very, very long way. — 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 is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. Then he hits on the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.
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American Movie
Wisconsin The 1990sAmerican Movie is the story of filmmaker Mark Borchardt, his mission, and his dream. Spanning over two years of intense struggle with his film, his family, financial decline, and spiritual crisis, American Movie is a portrayal of ambition, obsession, excess, and one man's quest for the American Dream.
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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
Florida New Mexico District of Columbia Wisconsin 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico Hokkaido Prefecture 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
Illinois Minnesota Ohio 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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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
Illinois 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.