![]() After the family receives an eviction notice, Evelyn wins $5,000. Everything is always stacked against the ever cheerful and resourceful Evelyn. But Julianne Moore's terrific skills as an actress and vivid production design and art direction which bring the 1950's back to life maintain interest, and, if one gives oneself over to the melodrama, "Prize Winner" is perversely enjoyable. Director Jane Anderson (HBO's "Normal"), who also wrote the screenplay, presents Tuff's point of view intact, a choice that makes her film verge on the brink of syrupy sap, which she then caps with a cloying coda depicting the real Ryan kids reminiscing in their family home. ![]() A memoir of a young girl who idolized her mother and pretty much despised her father is bound to be rather black and white, a picture of a saint and a sinner, but the adult reality is usually not so cut and dried. ![]()
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