''45365'' is a 2009 American

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made by first-time directors and brothers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross. The film is about the everyday life of the small town Sidney,

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, and the people living in it; the title comes from the town's ZIP Code. ''45365'' premiered at the 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize. It won the Roger and Chaz Ebert Truer than Fiction award at the 2010 Independent Spirit Awards. Jeannette Catsoulis has described the film, "A beguiling slice of Midwestern impressionism, ''45365'' drops in on the residents of Sidney, Ohio, to observe their lunches and haircuts, trials and transgressions."

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