The locally filmed independent movie "Iowa" will be shown at the Majestic Theater for at least one week, beginning Sept. 17.

Matt Farnsworth shot the independent film in Appanoose County in May and June of 2003. He and fiancee Diane Foster costarred in the film, along with well-known Hollywood actors Michael T. Weiss, Rosanna Arquette and John Savage.

The story line is described as a "cautionary tale of love, crime, fantasy and addiction that follows two young Iowa lovers who decide to go into the 'batch' business - cooking their own methamphetamine - only to watch it burn a searing hole in their lives." Used as backdrops for the film are the Square, streets and alleys of Centerville, as well as the city reservoir, Rathbun Lake and Mystic. Local residents were also used as extras.

Matt Farnsworth, is the son of a former Centerville resident and graduate of the Centerville High School Class of 1966, Neil Farnsworth. Farnsworth said he chose Centerville for the filming because he spent his younger summers here with his grandparents, the late Beryl and Thelma Farnsworth.

A half dozen years ago, Farnsworth said, he was surprised to hear about the meth scourge afflicting the scenic rural countryside that the rest of America still thinks of as peaceful and rustic.

The Centerville opening will be the first for the movie, except its showings in New York City as part of the TriBeCa Film Festival.

The festival's promotional material described the movie as "an account of the methamphetamine addiction ravaging the sons and daughters of the heartland, who should be out working in the local Wal-Mart or milking cows on the family farm but instead have turned into hallucinating tweakers and depraved crank monsters."