The Rising Place (2002)
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Reviews Counted: 16
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 14
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Average Rating: 3.2/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 6
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A woman learns a valuable lesson about her family as she and her aunt look back at her troubled past in this independent drama. As Virginia Wilder (Frances Fisher) visits her elderly Aunt Millie (Alice Drummond) for the Christmas holidays, she discovers a number of letters she received during the 1940s, and gains a new and clearer picture of Millie's life when she was younger. Teenaged Emily (Laurel Holloman) falls in love with a soldier who soon ships out to fight in World War II, but not
Cast
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Laurel Holloman
Emily Hodge -
Elise Neal
Wilma Watson -
Mark Webber
Will Bacon -
Liam Aiken
Emmett Wilder -
Bill Campbell
Streete Wilder -
Gary Cole
Avery Hodge -
Alice Drummond
Millie Hodge, Older Emi... -
Frances Fisher
Virginia Wilder -
Mason Gamble
Franklin Pou age 12 -
Beth Grant
Melvina Pou -
Tess Harper
Rebecca Hodge -
S. Epatha Merkerson
Lessie Watson -
Scott Openshaw
Eddie Scruggs -
Frances Sternhagen
Ruth Wilder -
Jennifer Holliday
Sadie -
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All Critics (17) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (14)
It is one more celluloid testimonial to the cruelties experienced by Southern blacks as distilled through a Caucasian perspective.
Top CriticLooks awfully like one long tourist spot for a Mississippi that may never have existed outside of a scriptwriter's imagination.
A not-so-Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood with a hefty helping of Re-Fried Green Tomatoes.
This misty-eyed Southern nostalgia piece, in treading the line between sappy and sanguine, winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand.
Rice is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any edge or personality to The Rising Place that would set it apart from other Deep South stories.
Yet another weepy Southern bore-athon.
A solid cast, assured direction and complete lack of modern day irony.
Rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them.
Never rises above its own unleavened blandness.
Salutes an interracial friendship between two Southern women and the ways in which enthusiasm can be a life-saving gift in tough times.
Sticky sweet sentimentality, clumsy plotting and a rosily myopic view of life in the WWII-era Mississippi Delta undermine this adaptation.
However sincere it may be, The Rising Place never quite justifies its own existence.
The overall feel is not unlike watching a glorified episode of "7th Heaven."
[Creates] the worst kind of mythologizing, the kind that sacrifices real heroism and abject suffering for melodrama.
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