Realized I didn't know all that much about the financial hardships faced by modern farmers, despite growing up in rural Wisconsin. Personalizes the loss of both livelihood and lifestyle through one family's tale.

A deeply personal docu about the loss of a farm, the film premiered at Sudance Film Festival where it won major awards. Amazingly similar in plot and events to the Jessica Lange farm feature Country, it deseved serious Oscar considerations.

The images of the land... exert a nostalgic tug for a Norman Rockwell dream of which this family, in better days, seemed to have found a piece.

Alternately heartwarming and heart-wrenching, rich with understated humor and warmth, punctuated with priceless glimpses inside the human condition, Troublesome Creek is a powerful film despite its familiar theme.

An emotionally affecting documentary about an Iowa family's struggle to keep their farm.

It's not perfect, but "Troublesome Creek" gets by on the charming personality of it subjects.

Anybody with a feeling for the rural Midwest will find this visually engaging documentary a bittersweet reminder of how family farming, once a pillar of American life, is slowly vanishing.

By subtly painting portraits of her parents and brothers and sisters, we also witness a remarkable history filled with noble examples of how to live, work, age and love in America today.