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Two and a half hours south of Chicago near the Illinois-Indiana border, Hoopeston, Illinois was once the global capital of sweet corn production. Church. Meth. Republicans. That's about what's left when Hoopeston officials, hoping to create jobs, start offering to give away prominent downtown buildings to anyone with a business plan. Guess who's coming to dinner but—whoops—a displaced Wiccan sect shopping down-market for a good spot to open the "nation's first witch school."
Told in four parts, this rough-around-the-edges documentary is "part poignant portrait of heartland America, part real-life Christopher Guest on toad's milk." As the Witches battle Christian opposition, Hoopeston's residents struggle to cope with decline and change: a young entrepreneur buys the only motel in town, the police chief fights a meth epidemic, and the Witch Chancellor lays plans for a vast Crystal Web. |
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