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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 the region's blizzard in Minnesota's century.

The Film takes place in the fictional town of Owl, North Dakota, which is semi isolated from the 1980s pop culture that surrounds it. This story follows three residents - Horace an old man who spends his afternoons reminiscing in the local coffee shop, Mitch a depressed high school backup quarterback star player-power-horse, and Julia the new English teacher at their local high school - whose lives, along with those of the town's other residents, are upended by a whiteout blizzard.—The Hollywood Reporter (Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport; MSP airport)

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.—Hamish Linklater (Minnesota)

Searching for a break from her cosmopolitan life in Milwaukee, Julia Rabia (Lily Rabe), arrives in the closeknit Reagan-era town of Owl, North Dakota for a one-semester high school teaching job. But when the small town turns out to be a wonderland of second-string poets, smoldering Marlboro Men, and a social hierarchy that echoes high school, Julia doesn't know if she's come to town to get away from home or to find it. Ed Harris, Vanessa Hudgens, Henry Golding, and Finn Wittrock also star in this Great Plains dark dramedy directed by Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater. Based on the novel by Chuck Klosterman.—Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Searching for a break from her cosmopolitan life in Milwaukee, Julia Rabia (Lily Rabe), arrives in the close knit Reagan-era town of Owl, North Dakota for a one-semester high school teaching job. But when the small town turns out to be a wonderland of second-string poets, smoldering Marlboro Men, and a social hierarchy that echoes high school, Julia doesn't know if she's come to town to get away from home or to find it. Ed Harris, Vanessa Hudgens, Henry Golding, and Finn Wittrock also star in this Great Plains dark dramedy directed by Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater. Based on the novel by Chuck Klosterman.