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Story of how a mother raised kids on twenty-five words or less.

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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

Release Date: Friday, September 30, 2005

Director: Jane Anderson

Starring: Julianne Moore Woody Harrelson Laura Dern Frank Chiesurin Trevor Morgan

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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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Steve Starkey
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PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned for thematic elements, some disturbing images and language
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Tagline
Story of how a mother raised kids on twenty-five words or less.
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio was released in on Friday, September 30, 2005. There were 8 other movies released on the same date, including Roll Bounce, The Greatest Game Ever Played and Into the Blue.

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