Monrovia, Indiana explores a small, rural town in the American midwest 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.
Monrovia, Indiana
This film is part of the Frederick Wiseman's America series.
This series is presented with generous support from:

Monrovia, Indiana
2018. 143 m. Frederick Wiseman. Zipporah Films. US. English. Rated NR.
Tickets: $11 (members), $16 (nonmembers)
"Monrovia, Indiana is an immersive wonder, thanks to Wiseman’s masterful ability to assemble images that lead from one painterly visual to the next."
"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."
This film is part of the Frederick Wiseman's America series.
This series is presented with generous support from:

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