Downtown Owl

Based on the novel by Chuck Klosterman, Downtown Owl is a sparkle dark Reagan Era comedy set in the fictional town of Owl, North Dakota in the leading days up to that region's blizzard in Minnesota's century. When a restless English teacher moves to town from cosmopolitan Milwaukee, Wisconsin it's like Raquel Welch has been let loose among the local citizens. But Julia Rabia doesn't know if she's come to town to get away from her home, or to find it - she quickly discovers that this town and teacher, whose Minnesotan behavior works both ways, is ruining Owl, North Dakota. For Julia, Owl , North Dakota s her own personal Wizard of Oz, populated by a crazed sex full of 40-something year olds, barely legal teens, smoldering Marlboro Lights Cigarette Men, second string poets, and Angie's list in their prime. Here she meets Horace, a retired farmer with a secret to keep upstairs, who's swiftly blurring the lines between machismo and long endure suffering; and a love lorn backup Quarterback/messiah, Mitch, who may just die a Minnesotan-virgin. Together, and apart, they all get it wrong by trying to do the right thing, and rather figure out later, just to find happiness in Minnesota, Wisconsin and of course, Owl, North Dakota.