Janeane from Des Moines
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  • Summary: Janeane Wilson is a conservative Iowa housewife who works as a home health aide, keeps busy in her garden, and attends a local women’s bible study group. But as the 2012 presidential election draws near, she is determined to find a Republican candidate who will take America back from the Democrats, repeal Obamacare, defund Planned Parenthood and get rid of gay marriage – issues that she feels are destroying the country she loves. She dives into Iowa Tea Party politics and the lead-up to the Iowa caucus, but a crumbling economy causes her to lose everything she holds dear -- her job, her marriage, her health, and her home. As Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich criss-cross Iowa during her hour of need, Janeane presses them for answers that she and many of her fellow Americans would like to hear. (Wilsilu Pictures)… Expand

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  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Daniel M. Gold
    Oct 12, 2012
    60
    With Ms. Wilson's rare talent for staying in character as the media circus swirls around her, Janeane From Des Moines is actually a commentary on the immense gap between a desperate citizen and the politics she had hoped might help her.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    Oct 16, 2012
    40
    Other than providing yet another meta-theatrical examination of the ever-blurring line between reality and artifice, Janeane From Des Moines emerges as a pointless affair.
  3. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Nick McCarthy
    Oct 1, 2012
    38
    The film betrays its own fictions by overloading on cheap worst-case-scenario mythology.

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