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Stories Set in Wisconsin
Supper clubs, Packers Sundays and frozen-lake noir — Wisconsin pairs warmth with winter. Its stories ice-fish from Milwaukee to the Apostle Islands.
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Browse 79 books, 83 movies, 10 TV shows and 2 games set in Wisconsin.
Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
This series examines the gruesome and horrific true crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over…
The Straight Story
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can but…
Feel the Beat
After failing to make it on Broadway April returns to her hometown and reluctantly begins training a misfit group of young dancers for a competition.
Lars and the Real Girl
Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet they are overjoyed. But Lars' new…
That '70s Show
Crank up the 8-track and flash back to a time when platform shoes and puka shells were all the rage in this hilarious retro-sitcom. For Eric, Kelso, Jackie, Hyde, Donna and Fez, a group of high school teens who spend…
American Gods
Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a…
American Movie
American Movie is the story of filmmaker Mark Borchardt his mission and his dream. Spanning over two years of intense struggle with his film his family financial decline and spiritual crisis American Movie is a…
Liv and Maddie
The exploits of identical twins Liv, a former television star back home in Wisconsin and in the process of adding movie star to her credits, as well as beginning to focus on her music career, and Maddie, an outstanding…
Starman
When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona the government tries to stop them.
Step by Step
Step by Step is an American television sitcom with two single parents, who spontaneously get married after meeting one another during a vacation, resulting in them becoming the heads of a large blended family
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