Movie Details
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Karen Konicek
Production Companies:Civic Film LLC Zipporah Films JustFilms Ford Foundation Corporation for Public Broadcasting PBS
Monrovia Indiana on the Web:Official Website
Monrovia Indiana
Audience Score
2 hr 23 minDocumentary
Monrovia Indiana explores a small town in rural midAmerica and illustrates how values like community service duty spiritual life generosity and authenticity are formed experienced and lived along with conflicting stereotypes The film gives a complex and nuanced view of daily life in Monrovia and provides some understanding of a way of life whose influence and force have not always been recognized or understood in the big cities on the east and west coasts of America and in other countries
DirectorFrederick Wiseman