Movie: The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

Very well done

This was a very cute story, but the movie wasn’t cutesy. Julianne Moore does a great job, as do all the actors. They really seemed to capture the feeling of the time period and the family drama and tension you feel is real. I thought it was particularly neat that at the very end of the movie they showed a scene with all of the real life children of Julianne Moore’s character. (The movie is based on a true story, which was made into a book by one of the aforementioned “children.”) They also include a bunch of photographs of the real family in the extra section of the DVD, which is somewhat interesting.