“Small Town Wisconsin” (** out of four) was a slight melodrama about a middle-aged man (David Sullivan) who tries to be a good father to his young son (Cooper J. Friedman) and re-develop a relationship with him but this and every other aspect of his life are encumbered by his severe alcoholism which he refuses to acknowledge or change. Well-intentioned story about alcoholism and its damaging effects on father-son relations but is never as incisive or as moving as it should be and film’s ending is abrupt and unsatisfying. Sullivan tries in the lead role but you just don’t care all that much about his character or his plight. One of the executive producers was Alexander Payne and this is an interesting companion piece to his “Sideways” but nowhere in the same league.