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Rambling Rose
1991
Based on Calder Willingham's novel of the same name, RAMBLING ROSE is a domestic drama set in a small Georgia town during the 1930s. The main character is Rose (Laura Dern), a lower-class girl with a troubled past who takes a job as a live-in maid for the Hillyers, an upper-crust, liberal southern family. Rose quickly wins over .. Read more
| Starring | Laura Dern, Robert Duvall, Diane Ladd, Lukas Haas |
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| Director | Martha Coolidge |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Rambling Rose
Based on Calder Willingham's novel of the same name, RAMBLING ROSE is a domestic drama set in a small Georgia town during the 1930s. The main character is Rose (Laura Dern), a lower-class girl with a troubled past who takes a job as a live-in maid for the Hillyers, an upper-crust, liberal southern family. Rose quickly wins over her employers with her warmth and spirit, but they are concerned about her promiscuity, which soon has every boy in town at her door. Struggling to resist her innocently seductive ways, the man of the house (Robert Duvall) tries to curb Rose's behaviour as she beguiles everyone in the household, including the young Buddy (Lukas Haas), whose sexual awakening is guided by her presence. The cast is rounded out by the strong-minded and independent Mrs. Hillyer (Diane Ladd), who is Laura Dern's real life mother; both actresses were nominated for Oscars for their performances.
| Starring | Laura Dern, Robert Duvall, Diane Ladd, Lukas Haas, John Heard |
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| Director | Martha Coolidge |
| Studio | MOMENTUM PICTURES |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 46 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 08 Sep 2003 Production year: 1991 |
| Format | DVD |
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A neat, rather eccentric movie that shines for a while but ends up being rather aptly named. Laura Dern is very good as the sexually precocious girl with a big heart who arrives to work for a rich Southern family surrounded by 1930s poverty. Director Martha Coolidge does play the “whale I do deeclare” card a mite too often, but the movie is saved from parody by Robert Duvall's consummate performance as the clan's kindly though unworldly patriarch. Dern and her real-life mother Diane Ladd were both Oscar-nominated, the first time in Oscar history that a mother and daughter had been nominated in the same year. A critical success but box-office bomb: the truth lies somewhere in between.
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"...The performers have a sweetness that wins you over from the beginning....Duvall works particularly well with Ladd..."
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RAMBLING ROSE? RAMBLES ON A BIT TOO MUCH
This film starts ok and ends ok. some very good performances from the cast in part but all in all the story line is a bit flakey and out dated. Watchable.
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RAMBLING ROSE? RAMBLES ON A BIT TOO MUCH
This film starts ok and ends ok. some very good performances from the cast in part but all in all the story line is a bit flakey and out dated. Watchable.
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Rambling Rose
Based on Calder Willingham's novel of the same name, RAMBLING ROSE is a domestic drama set in a small Georgia town during the 1930s. The main character is Rose (Laura Dern), a lower-class girl with a troubled past who takes a job as a live-in maid for the Hillyers, an upper-crust, liberal southern ...
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