The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
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- Synopsis
- The true story of one woman's effort to keep her family afloat under difficult circumstances comes to the screen in this bittersweet comedy drama. Evelyn Ryan (Julianne Moore) was a woman of intelligence, talent, and pluck living in the small town of ......
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- Director(s)
- Jane Anderson
- Distributor(s)
- Go Fish Pictures
- MPAA Rating
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 99 min.
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Critic Reviews
Avoids obvious sentiment and predictable emotion and shows this woman somehow holding it together year after year, entering goofy contests that for her family mean life and death.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
Even more than in "Far From Heaven," Moore's housebound wife is a study in pent-up brilliance, with extraordinary devotion to her family.Read the full review
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