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List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $9.98 Features • Color • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 20 September, 1991 DVD Release : 23 April, 2002 |
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Rambling Rose description This overrated period comic-drama, set in Georgia in the 1930s, featured the first mother-daughter team to be nominated for acting Oscars in the same year. Laura Dern plays a free-wheeling young woman who is taken in as a domestic by an upper-class family, headed by Robert Duvall and Diane Ladd (Dern's real-life mother). Rose, who tends to let her sexual urges get the best of her, scandalizes everyone in three counties (including Duvall and Lukas Haas, who plays his son) with her willing spirit. Do those kind of loose morals warrant court-ordered sterilization? Or does this young woman just need a guiding hand? While many fell for this cornpone shtick, directed by Martha Coolidge, it's a hard movie to cozy up to because Rose is such a caricature and the rest of the characters (with the exception of the always exceptional Duvall) are such sticks. --Marshall Fine |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Excellent film that shows Feminism in the South during the Nadir |
| First, Marshall Fine (the opening review) must smoke crack. This film is a very good depiction of the relationships between women in the deep South.
This film is set in the 1930s South where the widespread opression of women and African Americans sets the context. Women are generally expected to be domestic angels or whores. This film explores the middle-ground and shows how some women did have power in an era (and region) where they were considered powerless. It also shows how the whore stereotype arose-at least in the case of one woman. Rose is a young woman with a long history of sexual abuse. As a result, she confuses sexual activity with love. Therefore, she is sexually promiscuous. Rose enters the Hillyard family as a domestic servant to escape being forced into prostitution-the details of which are never explained. Chaos then ensues as Rose struggles to find love in all the wrong places and ways. Her frantic quest for love will cause her to take risks with her job, body and life. Meantime, Mrs. Hilyard (Diane Lane) is working on her doctoral dissertation, and even though struggling with hearing loss, the family matriarch. She becomes Rose's greatest protector and in the end, stands up for Rose when she is nearly destroyed by men who have ulterior motives. The relationship that develops between this unlikely duo-a patrician woman with a high education and a young uneducated girl coming from an alleged "dirt farm" is at the heart of this film. Diane Lane and Robert Duvall give excellent performances capturing their roles with an ease that only accompanies an experienced actor. Laura Dern, however, is a bit miscast as Rose. Hers is a role that Elizabeth Taylor would have "ate-up" in her prime. But Dern really struggles to make Rose believable. She often seems gangly and uncoordinated when she is supposed to be sensusal. Her southern accent sometimes sounds forced, and her bodily movements are awkward (note the scene where she attempts to walk down the street in heels!". Still, she rises to the occasion in several key scenes. Meantime, the children-particularly Luke Haas-perform admirably. That cannot often be said about child actors. All-in-all, this is a very good film about a subject that touches us all: the universal quest for love. |
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