This actor is from Green Bay.

 

This actor is from Cybertron.

Other than Milwaukee Art Museum’s brief involvement with multiple-stories-high alien robots and Shia Labeouf, the buzz in Wisconsin’s cinema circle over the past year has mostly revolved around Feed the Fish. (If you’re thinking, “Why, that’s an awfully slow movie news year” it’s because Gov. Doyle stopped the progressive tax credit program that he helped put in place and brought big projects like Public Enemies to our state. Remember that?)

Anyways, Feed the Fish is a studio-released feature film with a lot of Sconnie talent (including Green Bay native Tony Shaloub, of Monk and Wings fame, shown way above), a Wisconsinite writer/director (Michael Matzdorff), and takes place in Door County (where it was filmed). And from Dec. 10 to 16, it’s playing at Micon Cinemas.

From what I’ve come to understand from the articles about the film, it’s one of those feel-bad-to-feel-good comedies for the 30- and 40-something jetset. (Think Sideways.) In this case, we follow a burnt out children’s book writer in midlife crisis mode who flees L.A. for the solitude of a cabin in Wisconsin. (Will he become The Shining’s Jack Torrence or create For Emma in book form? Probably neither.) He butts heads with the sheriff (Shaloub), the sheriff’s father (Northern Exposure’s Barry Corbin), and dates the sheriff’s daughter (Katie Aselton of The League).

It will probably end happily. Will probably have an ice fishing scene. And you should probably see it. Check out the times.