Sweet Land

Here's a little gem: Sweet Land - A Love Story, starring Elizabeth Reaser (who joined the cast of Grey's Anatomy last season, and is hopefully returning this one). As my husband, Alex, noted, it has the feel of a foreign film, without the pesky subtitles. I wasn't always taken in by the supporting cast, but Reaser makes it all worthwhile. (I admit I have a little crush on her.) Rent it if you want to watch something, well, sweet.

The synopsis from Amazon:
Inge (Elizabeth Reaser) is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf (Tim Guinee), a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI, anti-German climate, the local minister (John Heard) openly forbids the marriage. Inge and Olaf fall in love despite the town's disapproval. But when the town banker (Ned Beatty) attempts to foreclose on the farm of his friend Frandsen (Alan Cumming), Olaf takes a stand...and the community unites around the young couple, finally accepting Inge as one of their own.