Beatty and Guinee on "Sweet Land"

Guinee and Beatty
Tim Guinee plays the lead character Olaf in "Sweet Land" and Ned Beatty plays Hormel a banker in the small farming community in rural Minnesota
MPR Photo/Euan Kerr

The film goes on limited release this weekend after drawing large audiences at a series of film festivals. Two of the film's stars, Ned Beatty and Tim Guinee who plays Olaf, came into the MPR studios to talk about the launch. Beatty told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr there is a simple reason for the film's success.

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