![]() ![]() Husband Kelly (Woody Harrelson), a factory machinist, drinks himself into a lather every evening. Inserting contest forms into her Underwood as easily as she slips off a diaper, Evelyn and her Defiance, Ohio, home appear to be the picture of Midwestern bliss.īut cracks soon appear below the domestic sheen, and the family’s lower-middle-class condition is only part of it. Having delivered her 10th (and final) child in 1956, Evelyn Ryan is already a frequent winner of the jingle contests companies used to hawk their consumer products after WWII. Even more than in “Far From Heaven,” Moore’s housebound wife is a study in pent-up brilliance, with extraordinary devotion to her family. ![]() Though her original work can be quite dark, as in “The Baby Dance,” “Prize Winner,” which Anderson also scripted, is told in a memoir form that both lightens and deepens the story about a woman with exceptional talent for writing jingles, yet is born in the wrong era to fully realize it. As far back as her brilliant solo theater work, “How to Raise a Gifted Child,” Anderson has been concerned with the relationship between mothers and children –as well as true sagas. ![]()
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