Top 5

"State Fair" was on TCM tonight.  So in honor of one of my home states, I thought I'd share my "Top 5: movies about Iowa.

1. Field of Dreams - Farmer Ray Kinsella mows down his cornfield to build a baseball diamond, and in the process comes to know the ghost of Shoeless Joe Jackson, and his own father.  "Is this Heaven?" "It's Iowa."

2. Music Man - Musical about con man Harold Hill, who sells the town of River City on a boys band, and finds love with Marian the Librarian.  "You really ought to give Iowa a try."

3. State Fair - The adventures of a family at the week-long Iowa State Fair.  "Oh I know all I owe I owe Ioway."

4. The Straight Story - An elderly man decides to visit his brother in Wisconsin, using a unique mode of transportation, that only an Iowan could truly appreciate.

5. Ice Castles - A young woman from Iowa becomes a figure skating champion, is blinded in an accident, and learns to skate again with the help of Robby Benson.  "Looking through the eyes of Love."