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It is one more celluloid testimonial to the cruelties experienced by Southern blacks as distilled through a Caucasian perspective. Nov 8, 2002 | Rating: 1/4
It is one more celluloid testimonial to the cruelties experienced by Southern blacks as distilled through a Caucasian perspective.
Jan Stuart
Looks awfully like one long tourist spot for a Mississippi that may never have existed outside of a scriptwriter's imagination. Nov 8, 2002 | Rating: 2/4
Looks awfully like one long tourist spot for a Mississippi that may never have existed outside of a scriptwriter's imagination.
Lou Lumenick
A not-so-Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood with a hefty helping of Re-Fried Green Tomatoes. Nov 8, 2002
A not-so-Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood with a hefty helping of Re-Fried Green Tomatoes.
Michael Rechtshaffen
This misty-eyed Southern nostalgia piece, in treading the line between sappy and sanguine, winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand. Nov 7, 2002 | Rating: 1.5/5
This misty-eyed Southern nostalgia piece, in treading the line between sappy and sanguine, winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand.
Stephen Holden
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. Nov 7, 2002 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
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.
Kevin Thomas
However sincere it may be, The Rising Place never quite justifies its own existence. Nov 7, 2002 | Full Review…
However sincere it may be, The Rising Place never quite justifies its own existence.
Mark Olsen
A solid cast, assured direction and complete lack of modern day irony. Nov 11, 2002 | Rating: A | Full Review…
A solid cast, assured direction and complete lack of modern day irony.
Edward Havens
Rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them. Nov 8, 2002 | Rating: 2/4
Rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them.
Glenn Whipp
Never rises above its own unleavened blandness. Nov 8, 2002 | Rating: C | Full Review…
Never rises above its own unleavened blandness.
E! Staff
Salutes an interracial friendship between two Southern women and the ways in which enthusiasm can be a life-saving gift in tough times. Nov 8, 2002 | Full Review…
Salutes an interracial friendship between two Southern women and the ways in which enthusiasm can be a life-saving gift in tough times.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Sticky sweet sentimentality, clumsy plotting and a rosily myopic view of life in the WWII-era Mississippi Delta undermine this adaptation. Nov 7, 2002 | Rating: 2/5
Sticky sweet sentimentality, clumsy plotting and a rosily myopic view of life in the WWII-era Mississippi Delta undermine this adaptation.
Ken Fox
The overall feel is not unlike watching a glorified episode of "7th Heaven." Nov 4, 2002 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The overall feel is not unlike watching a glorified episode of "7th Heaven."
Ed Gonzalez
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