Local movie, Sweetland, does well at box office

Sweetland, the Minnesota-made movie that opened this weekend, did really well. It's hard to compare Sweetland to The Grudge 2. The schlock Japanese remake made $22-million, stratospherically more than Ali Selim's little movie. But if you break it down by how much movies made per-screen; the horror movie made $7,000 for each screen it played on.

Sweetland made $22,000 per screen. On a per-screen average, that essentially ties it with The Queen* for the number one film of the weekend! Unfortunately, no one calculates box office rankings on a per-screen average. Sweetland's grand total was $44,000. But still, it bodes well for the little indie. The Minnesota immigrant romance will open at more theaters this coming weekend.

*Helen Mirren and Co. made $22,173 per screen.

The actors were fine, the photography was fine, etc., but an awful lot of poetic license taken by the director. The whole premise is highly improbable. But, okay, we must allow some hyperbole in story-telling. It's a diversity training tract, not a documentary. Many reviewers thought it took a slow approach. However, the movie compresses farming triumphs and traumas from about 1900 to 1939 into one year. That's a lot. And a lot of distortion. But I guess that's an acceptable artistic technique. I am quite upset that this uses my recent ancestors in a fundamentally dishonest way. Gullible people will not realize that they are being manipulated.
Please see Professor Carl H. Christlock's writings.

I am formerly from MN and now live in TX and was wondering when the movie will arrive here???? I am anxious to see it.

I am from MN, lived there for 24 years, and am really looking forward to seeing this movie. When will it be in the Denver area? I currently reside in Colorado.

With all the snow this area has received in the past three weeks, I just might move back to MN!!! I moved away from MN to get away from the snow, now I am sitting in more than knee-deep piles of it.

Thanks!

When will Sweet Land be coming to the Denver area? Let me know!