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Represented Iowa well, from an Iowan


I'm from Des Moines, IA, about 3 hours from Cedar Rapids, and don't go up there very often. That being said, it did manage to include the Quaker Oats building, so it felt to me like the Cedar Rapids I remember. I thought the movie did a good job of showing Iowa. Everyone pictures Iowa as just a state of cornfields, whereas the majority of Iowans actually don't live small town lives. Yes, there are a ton of small towns and there's nothing wrong with that. But while Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, the Quad Cities, etc. might not be Chicago or LA, there's life out here in Iowa and this might be the first movie that didn't try to portray Iowa as a small town stereotype.

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I'm not even into these types of movies, but I might have seen it if it had been filmed on location. (I live in Cedar Falls, and after Dubuque, CR is one of my favorite weekend getaways, thanks to a very good book store near Lindale, a sports store at Westdale, and relative proximity to the Meskwaki Casino and my birth town of Manchester)

Thank God we have Field of Dreams, though, which was not only filmed on location, but also used Dubuque to represent Boston, and the Driftless Area as the Appalachian Mountains.

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