Product Details

• Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Diane Foster, John Savage, Michael T. Weiss, Matt Farnsworth
• Directors: Matt Farnsworth
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Koch Vision
• DVD Release Date: February 10, 2009
• Run Time: 104 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001JQHT30
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #48,670 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Iowa" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

A Searing Tale of Crime, Love and Addiction

After an unexpected inheritance comes their way, Esper (Matt Farnsworth) and Donna (Diane Foster) plunge into the "batch" business - cooking their own methamphetamine - only to watch it burn a scorching hole in their lives. Left with no one to trust, the two lovers find themselves on the run from a corrupt parole officer (Michael T. Weiss), Esper's gold-digging mother (Rosanna Arquette) and their own consuming addiction.

BONUS FEATURES - Documentaries by director Matt Farnsworth:
"Poor Man's Dope" (short version) and "Dying for Meth" (extended version)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Meth Cooking, Gun Toting, Tweaking Boobs, March 20, 2009

By	Ken Douglas (The Coast) - See all my reviews

It's plain to see that as a director and as an actor, Matt Farnsworth has quite a future, but jeez this movie about a couple kids who one day happen upon a meth lab, taste the white powder, decide they like it then turn into meth cooking, gun toting, tweaking boobs in a few short weeks is a bit hard to take.

Still, if this was a horror movie with a little different plot line, it would be first rate. Matt should make himself a zombie move or two. Brrr, they'd be good. He's a good writer, too, Matt is, but the story falls down right from the get go when the Rosanna Arquette character is willing to have her son sent away to jail and murdered for a mere two hundred grand. And once the bad probation officer-slash-cop throws said son in the slammer, the last thing he's going to do is rape his girlfriend, who just happens to be the daughter of the guy who decides who gets the above mentioned cash.

That being said, Matt Farnsworth moves his characters through the film in such a way that you can't turn away. On more than one occasion either Vesta or I got up to eject the movie, but before we got to the DVD player something else happened on the screen to keep us watching. So I gotta say kudos to Matt Farnsworth, because though his movie about flawed people is flawed itself, he kept us watching, waiting to see what happens next on the way to it's inevitable conclusion.

Four stars, because as much as much as we wanted to stop watching, we just couldn't, we were hooked. Watch out for Matt Farnsworth and Diane Foster, his female lead in this film. They're going far.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Seems a bit far fetched, but not that far with Tweekers., April 8, 2009

By	Concerned One "Thrashfan" (Clarinda, IA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

This movie is set in rural Iowa (Centerville is shown, but could be any small farming town), and revolves around Esper Harte, a young man who just lost his father, and is set to inherit $200,000, as long as his father's urine is clean. Turns out, Esper's Father is a known "tweeker", and is on parole with a crooked parole officer entangled with Esper's mother in a plan to get the inheritance from him. However, in going through Dad's belongings with his girlfriend Diane, Esper discovers a Jar of Crank, and the degradation trip begins from there.

Being in Iowa myself, and seeing first hand what meth does to people, this far fetched scheme to some people for quick cash, either by murder or manufacturing more drugs is actually a good plan to someone in the thrawls of meth psychosis. These folks can not think strait the longer and more meth someone uses. At first it starts recreational, and it's all down hill from there.

Matt Farnsworth does a great job with his first film, and a nice list of actors such as Rossanna Arquette (Executioner's song, Pulp Fiction), John Savage (The Deer Hunter), and Michael T Weiss (T.V.'s The Pretender). The acting is fair, and with the funding this was likely shot with, reasonable camera and film work. If you liked films like Requiem for A Dream, then this is worth a viewing.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Tough film, good Iowa scenery, but too much tweaking, February 7, 2009

By	Steve Kuehl "SLV Video" (Ben Lomond, CA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

I had heard loads about this Farnsworth guy playing Iowa years back at Tribeca and getting some awards. Was hoping for some artistic insight into a nasty topic whilst taking place in some scenery waiting to be captured.

I will admit, there were some great geography panoramas, a few nice town square shots and plenty of dilapidation preserves. But the plethora of tweaking episodes and unique camera angles attempting to make the watcher understand tweaking, gets overwhelming. The story revolves around a young couple trying to make a better life for themselves in a small city Iowa setting. Instead of going the right way, they cook meth, share needles, tweak, and then tweak some more. Splice in more forced/rape sex scenes then should be in a film like this, some disgusting flushed baby scenes, meth sex and voila, a film enamored with the fallout of meth usage.

There are obviously important points to take away from this, and it does not belittle the need to raise awareness on this scary epidemic, but it just feels muddled and lost too many times. Decent performances, nice footage, some short DVD extras make for an ok release, but definitely not rewatchable. Some of the cast and crew are making what appears to be a more approachable film this year so I know we will be seeing more of them.