TV Guide: Sweet Land

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Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:56:39 -0400

A European exile finds herself a stranger in a strange land when she comes to the United States in this independent romantic comedy-drama. As a man ponders what to do with his family's estate after the death of his grandmother, he thinks back to how she first came to America shortly after World War I. Olaf (Tim Guinee) is a Norwegian-American farmer looking for a wife to share his home on the Minnesota prairie, and with eligible women in short supply locally, he sends away for a mail-order bride. Inge Ottenberg (Elizabeth Reaser) soon arrives at Olaf's doorstep, but while she's pretty, smart, and amiable, he's taken aback to discover she's not Norwegian but German, which after several years of anti-German propaganda does not make her popular with her new neighbors. Inge isn't very good with English, making it even harder to keep her background a secret, and the local pastor, Rev. Sorrensen (John Heard), is so outraged at the presence of a presumed Hun he refuses to perform their wedding. But Inge struggles to

Video: Sweet Land

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:04:08 -0400

Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota meet the man destined to be her husband. Bureaucracy and social morality cause major complications.

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CinemaNow — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:31:26 -0400

A 1920's love story in which a beautiful German immigrant (Reaser) and a young Norwegian farmer (Guinee) find love against all odds in a small town in Minnesota.

Video: Sweet Land

CinemaNow — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:16:59 -0400

A 1920's love story in which a beautiful German immigrant (Reaser) and a young Norwegian farmer (Guinee) find love against all odds in a small town in Minnesota.