Award-winning film ‘Farmer of the Year’ coming to Ritzville

The Ritz Theatre announces the screening of the ‘coming of aging’ feature film, Farmer of the Year. The film, by the Metaline Falls husband and wife team of Kathy Swanson and Vince O’Connell, stars Emmy-nominated Barry Corbin (Northern Exposure, No Country for Old Men, Urban Cowboy, War Games), Mackinlee Waddell (Good Christian Belles), and Terry Kiser (Weekend at Bernie’s) and is their first feature.

Written by Swanson, shot largely at the farm on which she grew up and in her hometown in Minnesota (pop. 1200), Farmer of the Year is the story of Hap Anderson, a widowed 83-year-old Minnesota fa...