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Rambling Rose - DVD

SKU: 4525151 | Release Date: 4/23/2002

Rating: R for Nudity, Adult Situations, Strong Sexual Content, Not For Children, Profanity

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Rating: R for Nudity, Adult Situations, Strong Sexual Content, Not For Children, Profanity
Format: DVD
Theatrical Release: 1991
Length: 115 minutes
Screen Formats: Full Screen
Genre: General Dramas
Studio: Live / Artisan
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Synopsis

Rambling Rose is the most part a flashback, related by grown-up Southerner Buddy Hillyer (John Heard). The bulk of the film takes place in 1935, when rambunctious backwoods housekeeper Rose (Laura Dern) virtually invades the Hillyer household. Daddy Hillyer (Robert Duvall), a bed-rock Southern gentleman, welcomes the congenitally amoral but basically goodhearted Rose into his house, carefully fending off her ill-timed romantic advances. But Rose can't help feeling smitten with him; meanwhile, she has also drawn the attentions of 13-year-old Buddy (Lukas Haas). Based on the novel by screenwriter Calder Willingham, Rambling Rose was not the box-office breakthrough that many expected for director Martha Coolidge; though it fizzled financially, the film did manage to secure Oscar nominations for both Dern and her real-life mother Diane Ladd. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Languages/Sound

Eng

Screen Formats

Full Screen

Subtitle Languages

Eng

Additional Features

Ful;-screen version Digitally mastered 2.0 Dolby Stereo Surround Scene index Interactive menus

Chapters

Side #1 --
1. Main Title/Dixieland [4:10]
2. "In Love and Harmony" [5:47]
3. How Bad Exactly? [3:56]
4. Falling for Daddy [2:09]
5. The Orphan Bowl [3:21]
6. Losing Control [6:33]
7. The Nature of Rose [11:23]
8. "Please Don't Tell" [4:17]
9. Strange Vibrations [4:13]
10. Out on the Town [3:44]
11. Off in the 4th Dimension [4:37]
12. Gentleman Callers [3:55]
13. A Friend in Mrs. Hillyer [3:42]
14. The Girl Is Sick [2:16]
15. "Rose Has Got to Go" [4:07]
16. Yankee Doctor's Prognosis [5:59]
17. A Changed Woman? [4:26]
18. The Pregnancy Test [4:21]
19. Therapeutic Measures [8:14]
20. Miracles out of Rabbits [5:03]
21. Rose and Mr. Right [6:49]
22. "Rose Lives" [5:13]
23. End Credits [3:47]

Cast

James Binns - Minister
Robert John Burke - Police Chief David Wilkie
General Fermon Judd, Jr. - Shadrack
Diane Ladd - Mother Hillyer
Evan Lockwood - Waski Hillyer
Michael Mott - Man in Store
Richard Olsen - Chief of Police
D. Anthony Pender - Foster
Dale Robertson - Young Salesman
Aleta Helena Chappelle
Laura Dern - Rose
David E. Scarborough - Horton
Jeffrey Smith - Stand-In
Matt Sutherland - Billy
John Heard - Willcox Hillyer
Michael Gwynne
Lukas Haas - Willcox "Buddy" Hillyer
Lisa Jakub - Doll Hillyer
Kevin Conway - Dr. Martinson
Robert Duvall - Daddy Hillyer
Robert Burke - Police Chief David Wilkie

Crew

Producer: Renny Harlin ,Mario Kassar
Costume Designer: Michael A. Jackson
Special Effects: Greg Hull
Producer: Karen Koch
Art Director: Kathleen M. McKernin
Producer: Laurie Parker
Composer (Music Score): Thomas Newman
Production Manager: Mary Kane
Executive Producer: Edgar J. Scherick
Costume Designer: Jane Robinson
Makeup: Manilo Rocchetti
Production Designer: Robin Standefer
Producer: Nancy Tenenbaum ,Nick Wechsler
Art Director: Christian Wagener
Production Designer: John Vallone
Cinematographer: Johnny E. Jensen
Casting: Aleta Helena Chappelle
Screenwriter: Calder Willingham
Art Director: Susan Benjamin
Cinematographer: Bojan Bazelli
Composer (Music Score): Elmer Bernstein
Director: Martha Coolidge
Editor: Steven Cohen ,Suzanne Fenn
Set Decorator: Robert Gould
Book Author: Calder Willingham
Storyboard Artist: Michael Jackson ,M. Anthony Jackson

Rambling Rose: AMG Review
Brian J. Dillard , AMG

Charming but bawdy, old-fashioned but politically progressive, Rambling Rose is a study in contradictions. A nostalgia piece in which sexual awakening and boyhood love intertwine in the unlikeliest of ways, the film hinges on sweet, sensitive performances from Lukas Haas and Laura Dern. Him the curious youngster, her the hothouse naif, their characters together represent both the innocence of our basest urges and the double standard applied to the curiosities of the two sexes. It's unusual for a film to have two separate but complementary emotional centers; the marriage between Mother and Daddy Hillyer, however, carries as much resonance as the friendship between Buddy and Rose. As the patriarch, Robert Duvall injects Big Daddy stereotypes with gentlemanly class and a genuine moral backbone, while Diane Ladd brings both a decorous exterior and a spine of steel to the role of his big-hearted wife. Despite a somewhat strained framing device featuring John Heard as the grown-up Buddy, Rambling Rose showcases a more mature, character-based style of comedy from Martha Coolidge, previously known as a director of cult-favorite teen comedies. Soft-focus, suffused with melancholy and beautifully shot, the film should have earned as loyal a popular audience as it did a critical following. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

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