small-town

In It Was Only an Accident, the first movie from Iranian dissident Jafar Panahi after his 2022 arrest for making anti-state propaganda, a small-town mechanic suspects that the stranger who stops by his garage late one night is the same man who tortured him while he was in prison.

I started working for a small-town paper.

The book’s central premise, or one of them, sounds juicy: The man born Robert Zimmerman, and raised by a middle-class Jewish family in small-town Minnesota, worked hard to turn his back on his Jewish roots, adopting an anglicized name and spinning a string of tall tales about his background and upbringing.

It has such a lovely small-town feel to it.

That show starred Sutton Foster as a Vegas showgirl turned small-town ballet teacher.