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AQHA34
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AQHA34 asked in Entertainment & MusicMovies · 1 decade ago

Does anyone know the name of a movie...about (see below):)?

A housewife who starts wrting jingles and starts winning...it is not a old movie....past couple of years I think. It is drving me NUTS:) Thanks!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)

  • Ranto
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

    I found it by typing "movie housewife writes jingles" into Google. See the links below.

  • 1 decade ago

    'The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio' starring Julianne Moore

    Based on Terry Ryan's bestselling memoir about her mother, Evelyn, Prize Winner is shameless Eisenhower-era corn. In her third 1950s matriarch role in as many years, after 2002's Far From Heaven and The Hours, Julianne Moore struggles valiantly to maintain her dignity as a saintly housewife who writes commercial jingles. Evelyn dutifully tends to her brood of 10 while her machinist husband, Kelly (Woody Harrelson), spends the kids' milk money on hooch, spiraling into alcoholic rages during Red Sox games. Evelyn's wordsmithery wins toasters, freezers, exotic comestibles, cars, and cash; when Dr Pepper prize money saves the Ryan home from repossession, Kay Starr's "Wheel of Fortune" plays redundantly on the soundtrack

  • 1 decade ago

    ~The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

    It stars Julianne Moore as the mother, who saves her family by writing jingles for major companies.

    I read the book, but, I haven't seen the movie. I highly reccomend it! It is a true story told by the middle daughter (she was one of 10 kids). It was inspiring to read about a woman that overcame so much and never gave up on her alcoholic husband and her children.

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  • 1 decade ago

    It sounds like "Mr. Mom" from 1983. It starred Michael Keaton and Teri Garr.

    Plot summary: Jack and Caroline are a couple making a decent living When Jack suddenly loses his job. They agree that he should stay at home and look after the house while Caroline works. It's just that he's never done it before, and really doesn't have a clue... (Her job is working for an ad agency....her best one is for tuna and the boss is played by Martin Mull).

    Hope this helps!!

    EDIT: I've never heard of the movie listed above in the previous 2 answers. However, it sounds just like the movie you're looking for and is more recent. Sorry!!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    the prize winner of defiance

    good luck!

  • 1 decade ago

    Sorry, I can't help.

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