The prize winner of Defiance, Ohio

Resource Information

The work The prize winner of Defiance, Ohio represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Normal Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The prize winner of Defiance, Ohio

Statement of responsibility

Dreamworks Pictures and Revolution Studios present an Imagemovers production ; produced by Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis ; written for the screen and directed by Jane Anderson

Creator

• Prize winner of Defiance, Ohio (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Universal Pictures (Firm)
• Anderson, Jane, 1954-
• Dern, Laura
• Freeman, Jonathan, 1950-
• Frizzell, John, 1966-
• Harrelson, Woody
• Moore, Julianne
• Morgan, Trevor, 1986-
• Porterfield, Ellary
• Ryan, Terry, 1946-2007
• Dreamworks Pictures

Subject

• Amas de casa -- Ohio | Defiance -- Teatro
• Biographical -- Feature
• Biographical films
• Competencias -- Estados Unidos -- Teatro
• Contests -- United States -- Drama
• Family -- Ohio | Defiance -- Drama
• Feature films
• Housewives -- Ohio | Defiance -- Drama
• Ryan, Evelyn -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Women -- Feature

Genre

• Biographical films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Teatro
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Women
• Biographical

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng

Summary

Based on the true story of Evelyn Ryan. Offers a revealing study of the housewife's plight during the Eisenhower era, along with an inspiring tale of tenacity and survival against formidable odds. Evelyn is a cheerfully strong-willed mother of ten who compensates for the failings of her alcoholic husband by becoming the most successful "contester" in the country. Between the mid-1950s and the early '60s, Evelyn submitted cleverly worded poems, jingles, and slogans in corporate sponsored contests. Winning everything from palm trees and pogo-sticks to sports cars and cash, she somehow mangages to hold the financially desperate family together with happy smiles and a rock-solid defiance

Member of

• qEnglish English | qDVD DVD

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Jonathan Freeman ; art director, Andrew M. Stearn ; editor, Robert Dalva ; music, John Frizzell ; costume designer, Hala Bahmet ; production designer, Edward T. McAvoy

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

• MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic elements, some disturbing images and language
• MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic elements, some disturbing images and langauge

Language note

Closed-captioned; dialogue in English (Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo) with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish

LC call number

PN1995.9.B55

LC item number

P7594 2006

PerformerNote

Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Laura Dern, Trevor Morgan, Ellary Porterfield, Simon Reynolds

Runtime

99

Target audience

general

Technique

live action