Russ and Mary Jane Jordan’s Iowa farm has been in the family for 125 years. Like the heroes of their beloved western movies, the Jordans have survived their share of hardship. So when their daughter, Jeanne, learns that this may be their last season on the farm, she is stunned. Foreclosure has overtaken many of their neighbors, and now the Jordan’s bank is demanding payment on their own longstanding debt. Their plan for survival is a radical one: to auction off all of their equipment and cherished belongings, from combine harvester to dining room table. Along with her husband, filmmaker Steven Ascher, Jeanne documents the painstaking process of letting go, capturing the emotional and physical landscape with equal poignancy. The film won both the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury and Audience Awards in 1996. It is the first of the filmmakers’ Families in Trouble trilogy; the latter two films, So Much, So Fast and Raising Renee, screened at Full Frame.  ST