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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
| Rating: | PG-13 (for thematic elements, some disturbing images and language) |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Release Date: | September 30, 2005 |
| Running time: | 99 minutes |
| Cast: | Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Laura Dern, Frank Chiesurin, Trevor Morgan |
| Director: | Jane Anderson |
| Producer: | Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey |
| Writer: | Terry Ryan, Jane Anderson |
| Distributor: | Dreamworks |
Description: Evelyn Ryan is a devoted housewife and mother of ten in the 1950s. Her husband 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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