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Summary: boring
Review: boring, boring and 1000 times boring. Why do you wanna expend your money in such a boring film?
Rating: 
Summary: Pleasant diversion
Review: Contrary to another viewer, I though Laura Dern's acting was very good in this film, unlike in "Jurassic Park" where she really did seem gawky and unnatural. The film has some nostalgia, some laughs, and some pathos. Not a classic, but an enjoyable diversion about a free-spirited young woman who creates havoc around her.
Rating:
Summary: Pleasant diversion
Review: Contrary to another viewer, I though Laura Dern's acting was very good in this film, unlike in "Jurassic Park" where she really did seem gawky and unnatural. The film has some nostalgia, some laughs, and some pathos. Not a classic, but an enjoyable diversion about a free-spirited young woman who creates havoc around her.
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Summary: In defense of Laura Dern!
Review: I must disagree with the reviewer who so strongly criticized Laura Dern's performance. While it is true that 'Rambling Rose' has its weaknesses (the abrupt, rather unexplained ending, for one thing), I found the story line humorous and even charming. Dern's performance made the movie, in my opinion! Diane Ladd overacts a bit, as usual, but this is a minor flaw with the film as a whole. What stuck with me was Dern's 'little girl lost' expression mixed with her coy devil-may-care flirtation, which made for an entirely winning performance. I loved the music too!
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Summary: GREAT MOVIE! NOT AT ALL, A BORE!
Review: I THINK THIS IS A GREAT MOVIE!
ROSE WAS A BIT FREAKY THOUGH!
YOU HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE MOVIE!
IT SHOULDN'T BORE YOU!
5 STARS*****
Rating:
Summary: Five stars and four fingers
Review: If you like the lowest common denominator you may not like this production. Story, acting, direction, and a good example of how women victimize boys and get away with it.
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Summary: Nepotism does not make for good moviemaking
Review: It must be nice to have daddy get you into the movies, but enough is enough. Laura Dern simply cannot act. That, combined with her gawky physical appearence, doom this film. I would feel sorry for her but for the fact that she has made it rich as an actress thanks to her dad's influence and reputation.A moderately intersting story line. Pleasant musical score. But c'mon, there must be better talent in Hollywood than this.
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Summary: Akin to starting a leaf blower near killer bees
Review: Societies regard single, attractive, sexually available women with both idolization and uneasiness. The lust, envy, jealousy and otherwise tumultuous passions surrounding their passage through the populace can be disruptive of societal bonds, e.g. by "homewrecking", even though no fault of their own. One reason why the concept, at least, of marriage is valued so highly is that this cultural arrangement takes the problematic single female out of circulation, so to speak. And, social pressures cause opprobrium to be heaped on "loose women", even by the very men who are drawn to them. Of course, the feminist correctly sees these attitudes as blatantly sexist. However, even western culture's most chauvinistic pig is likely to regard the veiling and segregation of women in fundamentalist Islamic societies, for example, as an unacceptably extreme manifestation of those same attitudes. RAMBLING ROSE takes a compassionate look at the phenomenon of social turbulence caused by an "unattached" woman. Rose, flamboyantly played by Laura Dern, is the blithe, single, 19-year old girl invited to live with a very proper Southern family in the mid-1930s. The family, offering Rose help at this difficult time in her life, includes Daddy (Robert Duvall), Mother (Diane Ladd, Dern's real-life mother), and 13-year old Buddy (Lukas Haas). Rose, already possessing a checkered history acquired with unspecified men, is a sexual "free spirit", who proceeds to cause hormonal havoc in the town's male population. Even Daddy is bewitched. To Buddy, Rose is, unsurprisingly, the godsend of a new awareness. Of the adults, only Mother, recognizing Rose as essentially guileless, staunchly defends her as the repercussions of the Siren's residence start to add up. A better film on much the same theme is Y2K's MALENA - a superb Italian production. Nonetheless, RAMBLING ROSE is delightful. Dern is positively captivating. Duvall is at his best, which is pretty darn good by any measure. Ladd portrays Mother as a slightly eccentric individual whose generosity towards and understanding of Rose is a clear counterpoint to the hardening attitudes of the other adults. The Buddy character should remind all males in the viewing audience of that time when they were 13 and discovering girls as beings with something more to offer than simply opportunities for boorish teasing. I like this film immensely.
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Summary: Rent it if you must
Review: There was a movie to be made here, but this is the worst kind of "Hollywood does the south" nonsense. Dern's "accent" alone was repellent in addition to a sexual scene with a VERY young boy which will doubtless make some viewers quite queasy. How could a cast this good render such trashy gibberish? Only thing that could have redeemed this at all would have been much more nudity on Dern's part.
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Summary: GREAT MOVIE
Review: This movie was great from start to finish. The sound was great on the DVD edition. The acting was great. Whether we want to accept it or not, it was true to life. The director did a great job. The scenery was beautiful. I am glad I purchased this so I can watch it over and over.
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