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Julianne Moore, Laura Dern, Melanie Tonello, Simon Reynolds, Trevor Morgan
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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Id: 10893087
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)
One of Julianne Moore's more subtle and charming performances saves this movie. I could have done without all the gimmicky stuff, but I thought it was a lovely little movie and reminded me of my own mother.
Enjoyable but not a great flick. Julianna Moore was too beautiful to play the part of Evelyn Ryan. It added to the superficiality of the character - played too happy (another June Cleaver???.) Perhaps this is how Ryan was presented in her daughter's memoir (I haven't read it.) I ...( read more)
This movie surprised me alot.This whole movie is based on a true story of a huge family of 12 that are living in the 50's.Its about a mother/stay at home house wife that enter's all these contests so her and her family can live.Her husbund use to be a singer now he spends there m...( read more)
