The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

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Anyone seen the movie or read the book? I rather like the way the movie stylizes the prizewinning process in order to put a romanticized 1950s veneer on the protagonist's life before veering into darker, more realistic territory. Julianne Moore is superb. I wish Woody Harrelson's alcoholic father had been a tiny bit more fleshed out. The real discovery, though, is Ellary Porterfield playing the daughter who grows up to write the book.