The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
Release date: September 28, 2005 More »
Director: Jane Anderson
Cast:
- Julianne Moore as Evelyn Ryan
- Woody Harrelson as Kelly Ryan
- Laura Dern as Dortha Schaefer
- Trevor Morgan as Bruce Ryan at 16 yrs
- Ellary Porterfield as Tuff Ryan at 13, 16 & 18 yrs
- Simon Reynolds as Ray the Milkman
- Monté Gagné as Lea Anne Ryan at 17 yrs
- Robert Clark as Dick Ryan at 16 yrs
- Michael Seater as Bub Ryan at 15 yrs
- Erik Knudsen as Rog Ryan at 13 yrs
- Jake Scott as Bruce Ryan at 11 yrs
- Jordan Todosey as Tuff Ryan at 9 yrs
- Ryan Price as Mike Ryan at 6 yrs Show All »
About:
Based on a true story, "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio" Julianne Moore as Evelyn Ryan, 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.
Producer: Marty P. Ewing, Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis
Writers: Terry Ryan, Jane Anderson
