The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio
- Original title
- The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio
- Year
- 2005
- Running time
- 99 min.
- Country
United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Jane Anderson. Book: Terry Ryan
- Cast
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- Julianne Moore
- Woody Harrelson
- Laura Dern
- Trevor Morgan
- Jordan Todosey
- Frank Chiesurin
- Jack Murray
- Ellary Porterfield
- Simon Reynolds
- Monté Gagné
- Robert Clark
- Michael Seater
- Erik Knudsen
- Jake Scott
- Ryan Price
- Shae Norris
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Family Relationships. 1950s. 1960s
- Synopsis
- Evelyn Ryan (Julianne Moore) is a devoted housewife and mother of ten in the 1950s. Her husband (Woody Harrelson) can't seem to make ends meet, but that doesn't stop the car from breaking down, the mortgage coming due and the bills from piling up. It falls to Evelyn to defy the conventions of the day and find a way to keep her family together with the odds stacked against them. Applying her remarkable resourcefulness and an uncommon wit, Evelyn finds her own way in the profitable jingle contests popular in the 1950s and '60s.
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- Awards
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2005: Satellite Awards: nominated to Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama.
- Critics' reviews
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"Anderson is the rare filmmaker who doesn't want to use the actress as an instrument or to exploit her independent-movie cachet. She has freed Moore to be what she hasn't been with many directors: credibly human."
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"An engaging film bolstered by the stellar performance of Julianne Moore"
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"This maudlin, fact-inspired and anti-feminist dramedy is no 'Far From Heaven' or 'The Hours.'"
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