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Rambling Rose Reviews

1991

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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
Director	Martha Coolidge
Genres	Comedy, Drama

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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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- - Los Angeles Times
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
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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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  - mark downes
  - Risca, South Wales
  - 04 Mar 2005 at 10:20
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  one of those you remember
  
  well this is a fine film and was the fisrt i saw with Laura Dern in , she is outstanding as Rose and so too are Robert Duvall and Luke Haas who plays Buddy is ... read more »
  
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- - Deanoson
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  - romford
  - 12 Feb 2008 at 12:42
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  Rambling Rose
  
  Rose (Dern) comes to live with, and work for, the Hillyer family. She comes to think of Mother (Ladd; Dern's real life Mother) as a surrogate parent, falls ... read more »
  
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- - SAI81
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  - Tonbridge
  - 18 Mar 2007 at 22:06
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  Nice One
  
  I enjoyed watching this film. Robert Duvall as usual is great.
  
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  - 18 Apr 2005 at 12:08
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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.
  
  Report this review
- 77892
- - mark downes
  - Risca, South Wales
  - 04 Mar 2005 at 10:20
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- - 1
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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.
  
  Report this review
- 77892
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - mark downes
  - Risca, South Wales
  - 04 Mar 2005 at 10:20
- - 1
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  Nice One
  
  I enjoyed watching this film. Robert Duvall as usual is great.
  
  Report this review
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- - a customer
  - West Yorkshire. England
  - 18 Apr 2005 at 12:08
- - 1
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  Rambling Rose
  
  Rose (Dern) comes to live with, and work for, the Hillyer family. She comes to think of Mother (Ladd; Dern's real life Mother) as a surrogate parent, falls ... read more »
  
  Report this review
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- - SAI81
  - 360 reviews
  - Tonbridge
  - 18 Mar 2007 at 22:06
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  one of those you remember
  
  well this is a fine film and was the fisrt i saw with Laura Dern in , she is outstanding as Rose and so too are Robert Duvall and Luke Haas who plays Buddy is ... read more »
  
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- - Deanoson
  - 106 reviews
  - romford
  - 12 Feb 2008 at 12:42

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Critics' reviews
- "...The performers have a sweetness that wins you over from the beginning....Duvall works particularly well with Ladd..."
- 11863
- - Los Angeles Times
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
- Though her employers, the ever-genteel Daddy and Mother (Duvall and Ladd) welcome her with open arms, 19-year-old... read more on Time Out
- 46083
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:16
- "...[RAMBLING ROSE is] honest, engaging and quite a lot like its perky, disreputable heroine..."
- 11864
- - New York Times
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
- "...Dern's performance lingers like a siren's song. So does the movie. It's a beauty."
- 11865
- - Rolling Stone
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
- Gripping domestic drama that gains from its period setting.
- 32776
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:43

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