The small-town setting is particularly convincing.

Each of the colleges is located in a small-town setting, with convenient access to larger cities in Illinois and Indiana.

They found, however, that this relationship only held up for workers in small-town settings.

The perils of daily life feel more pronounced, more real, in the stories with small-town settings.

Why the major studios may have turned down her film: Women's story; characters going nowhere in a small-town setting.

Alma College is located in a small-town setting, the city of Alma having slightly fewer than 10,000 residents.

The film, about an immoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was an international success.

Anyone who grew up in a rural landscape will recognize the essential flavor and texture of this film's small-town setting.

I'm writing you a little old period piece in a small-town setting.

Her images of childhood, however, are often rendered in small-town settings, with mildly eccentric, bleakly comic characters.