Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern

This deeply affecting documentary by husband and wife team Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher, is both a personal journey home and a timely reminder that well into the '90s, farm families were still losing their homes and livelihoods to bank foreclosures. Framed by bits of family history and set against clips from classic Westerns, Jordan tells the story of modern prairie life, an unidealized "Midwestern." Hardworking farmers, deeply in debt since the '80s, after banks actively encouraged them to borrow and expand, are known only by their risk rating now that impersonal, multistate corporations have bought out the local bank. To avoid foreclosure on their own farm, Jo...