State Fair
Top 10 Billed Cast
Melissa Bryant
Jim Bryant
Wayne Bryant
Karen
Bobbie Jean Shaw
Miss Detweiler
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Melissa and Jim Bryant live on an Iowa farm with their adult son Chuck, their adult daughter Karen, and their teenage son Wayne, who is a high school sophomore. Wayne is a talented singer and guitarist who dreams of country music stardom. Karen, newly separated from her husband, has recently rejoined the family with her own young son Tommy, who misses his father. This was a pilot film for a proposed television series that was not picked up.
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1976-05-14
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