Release Year: 2005 Rating: PG-13 Duration: 99 minutes Director: Jane Anderson Producer: Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey Distributor: Go Fish Pictures
synopsis
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
cast
Frank Chiesurin as Freddy Canon Jordan Todosey as Terry Ryan (Tuff) @9 Julianne Moore as Evelyn Ryan Laura Dern as Dortha Schaefer Trevor Morgan as Bruce Woody Harrelson as Leo "Kelly" Ryan
quote
[from trailer]
Leo "Kelly" Ryan: [after Evelyn has thrown Jello on him] You killed me...
Evelyn Ryan: Death by Jello is highly unlikely.
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio Reviews (1 reviews)
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Rating : 3
THE PRIZE WINNER OF DEFIANCE, OHIO is a true story that rarely rings true. As syrupy and repetitive as those TV jingles whose creation the movie is about, the film features Julianne Moore as an always chirpy automaton named Evelyn Ryan and Woody Harrelson as Kelly, her drunken loser of a husband. No matter how despicable Kelly's actions, Evelyn keeps smiling like one of the Stepford Wives, acting as if she is completely incapable of noticing his ridiculous behavior. There is such little chemistry -- positive or negative -- between Moore and Harrelson that they might as well have been acting on separate sets against a blue screen with their performances spliced together in post-processing.
