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A Simple Midwest Story 2001/ 91 Minutes/ B&W/ USA Directed by Blake Eckard Cast: Alec Jennings, Nathan Marticke, David Blair, Kristy Berry, Doug Bruster, Andy Townsend, Randy Sego, Jerry Phillippe, tiffany Crouse, Natasha Eckard, Frank Carroll

SYNOPSIS: The story of the Flems brothers and why they, along with their cousin, murdered three people in three days on farms in Missouri and Iowa.

A sudden act of violence sends two brothers into a torpor of violence in this first feature from 18-year-old writer-director Blake Eckard. Living on a farm in a backwater burgh with their cousin and stepfather, the Flems have a mundane lifestyle until one of their extended clan ends up dead. Trying to cover up the murder, the boys find themselves committing more atrocities in their efforts to clear their names. Told in flashback, the tale was shot by Eckard on digital video in and around his home state of Missouri. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide

 

Director Bio: Blake Eckard Blake Eckard was born February 4, 1980, in Northwest Missouri. Living on the Glaciated Plains, Eckard grew up building countertops, driving trucks, drinking beer and making movies. "A Simple Midwest Story," was shot in two weekends while Eckard was still in high school. Local friends and family made up the cast for the dark crime story. After three years of editing, “Story” screened at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City where the New York Press wrote of the picture, “Think a bleaker ‘Fargo’ on a shoestring.”