Male bonding and modest life lessons are on the itinerary in Small Town Wisconsin , a melancholy character study in which an alcoholic father takes a road trip with his adoring 9-year old son in order to deliver some bad news: the boy and his mother are moving across the country without him.
David Sullivan plays Wayne, an auto mechanic who resides in a tiny Wisconsin community which offers few economic prospects. Battling a drinking problem, anger issues and general immaturity, Wayne tries to exude a life-of-the-party demeanour, only finding joy in rooting for the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team and being around his young son Tyler Cooper J.
Wayne shares custody of the boy with his ex-wife Deidra Tanya Fischer and her new husband. But soon, the stiff grins on the characters around Wayne make it clear to us if not to him that they recognise his life is troubled. Screen International is the essential resource for the international film industry.
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