Julianne Moore, Laura Dern, Melanie Tonello
Evelyn Ryan is a devoted housewife and mother of ten in the 1950s. Her husband can't seem to make ends meet, but that doesn't stop the car from breaking down, the mortgage coming due and the bills fro...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 14, 2006
Stats: 653 reviews
This was fantastic...I had no interest in it what so ever, but just by chance I ended up watching it and I was taken...
This was truly amazing...
To see one woman harbour so much love and optimism and show so much strength...with an alcoholic husband, ten children to nuture and...( read more)
This was a cute movie and I wish I had this mother's optimism. I would have kicked the alcoholic father out as soon as I found out we were going to lose our house b/c he took out a second mortgage without telling me. Her way of sustaining her family amused me b/c I have won a few...( read more)
I guess this movie was OK. Not to fault the actors or anything; they were fine. Good to Evelyn for holding her family together. It is just that I will have forgotten I'd ever seen this movie in two weeks time.
Woody Harrelson is awesome in this movie as a drunken crappy father. "I'm a chump in a slump, and I live in a dump. SANDWICH." Other wise, the rest of the movie was some inspirational overcoming adverstiy story that I failed to pay attention to.
Moore plays a woman with 10 children. Although her husband works as a machinist, she basically provides for the family by winning all sorts of contests for all kinds of big prizes, including big cash prizes. The woman is a master of winning these things. It's the one thing that's...( read more)
i love thsi movie. it is cute and funny although woody harrelson's character makes you hate him , the movie overall is quite good.
Beautiful story..really great movie.. much better that what i was expecting
Julianne Moore has never been this loveable. A heartwarming movie about getting by in the 50s.
The prize in this movie is Moore, a first-rate actress who finds layers in Evelyn that the script fails to investigate. full review
A poignant look at a family overcoming adversity, the film also provides a glimpse of past popular culture many of us know little about. full review
Prize Winner, written and directed by Jane Anderson, avoids obvious sentiment and predictable emotion and shows this woman somehow holding it together year after year, entering goofy contests that for... full review
Even though Prize Winner ultimately asks us to swallow that golfball-size happy pill, Anderson and her not-so-secret weapon Moore are actually clawing their way toward something deeper and far more co... full review
This movie is soo good. I had boght it for my mom for like mothers day or something cause she had read the book, so then I just watched it with her. And I just loved it. It is just sooo good. At least I think so.
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