Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 18
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 0
A touching. bittersweet, and wonderfully-acted film.
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 0
A touching. bittersweet, and wonderfully-acted film.
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Rambling Rose is the most part a flashback, related by grown-up Southerner Buddy Hillyer (John Heard). The bulk of the film takes place in 1935, when rambunctious backwoods housekeeper Rose (Laura Dern) virtually invades the Hillyer household. Daddy Hillyer (Robert Duvall), a bed-rock Southern gentleman, welcomes the congenitally amoral but basically goodhearted Rose into his house, carefully fending off her ill-timed romantic advances. But Rose can't help feeling smitten with him; meanwhile,
Sep 10, 1991 Wide
Mar 16, 1999
Live Home Video
All Critics (21) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (0) | DVD (2)
It's a beauty.
[A] funny, moving, spectacularly acted little film.
Willingham, who also scripted Paths of Glory, Little Big Man and The Graduate, wrote Rose in the early 1970s. Thanks to these sterling performances almost two decades later, his screenplay enjoys a fresh and tender blossoming.
The movie is all character and situation, and contains some of the best performances of the year, especially in the ensemble acting of the four main characters.
Seen in a flashback through the eyes of an adolescent, this uncommon coming-of-age tale, which raises poignant questions about the mysteries of sex and love, flaunts a superb performance from Laura Dern as the promiscuous girl
A quirky, funny but moving story with terrific performances all around.
Probes the mixture of fear and awe many men experience when they meet the life-force of women.
A modest but pleasingly adult entertainment at a time when even the most promising American films ultimately revert to Pollyannaish platitudes.
A touching, humorous and enjoyable film.
This unusual coming-of-age movie is charming, warm, witty and full of delightful surprise about a naive but sexually uninhibited girl arrives in an old-fashioned Southern household and soon has all the men in the family, indeed in the town, in a tizzy.
March 19, 2007
Super Reviewer
Vivid characterizations from a terrific cast. Laura Dern and Robert Duvall are particularly good. Diane Ladd scores in a supporting role. Fine period flavor, excellent score and it?s very well written. Excellent.
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