It also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 13. Release Box office īutter premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 3, 2011. The script came third on Leonard Franklin's 2008 Blacklist of Hollywood's most popular unproduced screenplays. This was the first film produced by Jennifer Garner's production company, Vandalia Films. He submitted a draft of the script for a Nicholl Fellowship with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2008 and won. The screenplay is the debut of Jason Micallef. Later, Destiny is officially adopted by the Emmets and Laura runs for Governor, claiming that God appeared to her and advised her to run. Upon her victory, Destiny assures Laura the butter-carving contest by telling her "this isn't all you have." Laura kneels down to Destiny and hugs her, understanding that she must move on to greater triumphs that are her own. Destiny goes on to win in the state competition, where judges give a positive critique on her piece, deeming it an "angst-ridden exploration of post-natal abandonment." The sabotage of the piece is recognized as "higher art" as the judges believe the melted face lends the butter sculpture a greater depth. Despite the damage, Destiny's sculpture wins. Laura feels she has little opportunity to distinguish herself otherwise, while Destiny has talent and her entire life to realize her own potential. Laura tells Destiny that winning the butter-sculpting contest means more to her than the little girl can comprehend. That night before the judging, Boyd sneaks into the butter-sculpture room and defaces Destiny's sculpture with a blowtorch.ĭestiny, disappointed and expecting to lose now, encounters Laura in the restroom and offers the forgiveness of her handshake. Kennedy's car immediately after his assassination, complete with his blown-up skull and Jackie Kennedy and Clint Hill crawling onto the trunk Destiny creates her biological mother holding her infant self in a rocking chair. When Destiny gets home, a social worker informs her that her biological mother has died and gives Destiny a picture of mom holding her when she was a baby.Īt the state fair, Laura carves a replica of John F. Destiny agrees everyone else is disgruntled.īrooke gets her money from an infatuated Kaitlin, meets Destiny after school, and takes her to the mall to buy her a $1200 set of chef's knives to help her in the rematch with Laura. Laura suggests a rematch at the state fair.
She seduces him to get him to falsely testify to county officials that Ethan paid him to help Destiny in the competition. Meanwhile, Kaitlin's stepmother, Laura hooks up with Boyd Bolton, an old high-school boyfriend who is now an owner of a used-car dealership who also is a skilled butter sculptor. Brooke wants the money (she ups the amount to $1200) and Kaitlin says she can get it.
Kaitlin is drawn to Brooke's alternative style and attitude.
After they talk a bit, Kaitlin challenges Brooke to a game of truth-or-dare which escalates to them having sex. When Brooke appears at the Picklers' seeking her money, Bob's daughter Kaitlin admits her and takes her up to her room. Despite practice, Laura comes in second to Destiny. Destiny decides to enter as well, as does Brooke, who just wants to harass the Picklers because Bob owes her $600. Laura decides to enter the county's preliminary sculpture competition herself because of the social status that comes with winning. Laura discovers them and T-bones the van with her SUV. Bob goes to a strip club and solicits stripper Brooke for sex in his minivan. Bob's overly-competitive, socially-ambitious wife Laura goes to the home of the competition's organizer to protest. While visiting the Iowa State Fair by herself, she wanders into the exhibit of the winning butter sculpture, a life-sized Last Supper, and skillfully finishes the Holy Grail cup, which impresses the sculpture's creator, Bob Pickler ( Ty Burrell).īob has won the fair's butter-sculpture contest for the past 15 years straight because of his dominance, he is asked to abstain from future competitions to give others a chance. Destiny is a 10-year-old African American foster child being raised by white parents in Iowa who gets placed with Ethan and Jill Emmet. The film takes place in and around Johnson County, Iowa.
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