Butter (2011) on Netflix
Bob Pickler has won the Iowa State Fair's butter-sculpture contest fifteen years running. Asked to sit out, his wife Laura enters instead, and foster child Destiny discovers a gift for carving.
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- Rotten Tomatoes34%
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Plot summary
For fifteen straight years the Iowa State Fair's butter-sculpture title has gone to Bob Pickler. Because of that dominance, the organizers ask him to abstain from future competitions. His wife Laura is competitive and socially ambitious, and she decides to enter the contest herself. Destiny, a ten-year-old foster child who has moved between homes and been told she has no talent, lives with Ethan and Jill Emmet. At the fair on her own, she comes upon the display of Bob's winning piece, a life-sized Last Supper, and completes its Holy Grail cup, which impresses him. She enters the contest as well. Brooke, a stripper Bob owes money to, signs up too, aiming to harass the Picklers.
Cast
- Garrett Schenckas Orval Flanagan
- Judy Leavellas Helen Flanagan
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Butter (2011)
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- Butter was a box-office bomb, taking only $175,706 at the worldwide box office against a production budget of $10.8 million.
- Butter's screenplay was the debut of Jason Micallef, who won a 2008 Nicholl Fellowship from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a draft he submitted to the competition.
- Butter is said to be a satire of the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, with that real political contest transposed to an Iowa State Fair butter-sculpture competition.
