Taggart Siegel's loving portrait of eccentric farmer John Peterson is an epic writ small that focuses on a life lived almost entirely on a Caledonia, Ill., farm yet encompasses six decades of changing American social mores and economic upheavals.
When he was a child, Peterson says, he "thought the whole world was a farm." One of three children raised on some 300 acres that had been in the family since the Depression, he was the quintessential farm boy: strapping, clean-cut and hardworking. He loved the smell of earth and the satisfaction of hoeing, reaping and threshing. He loved his parents and ran around with the rest of the local kids — his mother's ...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
83 mins