Peyton Place
1957 Nominee

100 Words
It’s hard to be from a small town in…Massachusetts? The accents are both distinctive and disarmingly fake. Allison wants to be a writer, but her mother lied to her about her father and now her mother is dating the new principal and also Allison kissed Rodney at her birthday, but Norman and she practice kissing because it’s the first thing they can practice from the wrapped books they bought. It’s a lot.

Selena is the most interesting, but her story is a whisper in a dramatic scream of a movie that dropped soap operas into all of our mothers’ parlors.