"A comedy about sex, power and spreading the wealth."
An adopted girl discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their Iowa town's annual contest.
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Social & External
The people behind it
Jennifer Garner
Laura Pickler
Yara Shahidi
Destiny
Hugh Jackman
Boyd Bolton
Ty Burrell
Bob Pickler
Olivia Wilde
Brooke Swinkowski
Alicia Silverstone
Julie Emmet
Rob Corddry
Ethan Emmet
Ashley Greene
Kaitlen Pickler
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Ned Eaten
Kristen Schaal
Carol-Ann Stevenson
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