Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305261452
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305261458
Label: Geneon [Pioneer]
Manufacturer: Geneon [Pioneer]
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Geneon [Pioneer]
Release Date: March 16, 1999
Running Time: 140 minutes
Sales Rank: 32712
Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
Theatrical Release Date: September 20, 1991
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Description:
When Rose, an alluring young woman played by Laura Dern, moves in with a Southern family to care for their children, their lives are changed forever. Rose relates to everyone she meets in the only way she knows how - with an innocent, but highly charged sexuality she cannot restrain. Robert Duvall co-stars as 'Daddy,' a man whose traditional values could never prepare him for the temptations of Rose. Diane Ladd - Dern's real-life mother - plays 'Mother', who offers Rose protection and love despite the scandal the girl creates in their small town. Lukas Haas is the teenager who will always remember Rose as both a provocative fantasy and a profound mystery. Special Features include: Scene-by-scene commentary by director Martha Coolidge; Interview with the director; Deleted scenes; Alternate ending. Laura Dern, Robert Duvall, Dianne Ladd, Lukas Haas
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great Movie
This movie is set in my hometown area. It is quite believable from the setting point of view. Good performances.
Rating:  - Dern grounds the film the best she can...
As a whole, `Rambling Rose' is a little too heavy handed, so much so that it comes off kind of hokey. The ending is a little overdone and the character development is a little weak, but in the end I can't say that it is a waste of time or necessarily a bad film, it just doesn't warrant all the praise it has received over the years. As an acting showcase it delivers to an extent, and as a moving period drama it works to an extent, so as an entertaining film it works to an extent.
In other words; there are things to like here but not enough to really make the film complete.
The film tells the story of a young woman named Rose who moves in with the Hillyer family during the 1930's. She's a flamboyant and uncontrollable force why comes to serve as maid and housekeeper to the family in order to spare her a life of debauchery. Her story is told through the eyes of Buddy, now an adult, who was but a young boy when Rose first moved into his home. Rose, a very sensual and tantalizing woman, immediately takes a liking to Mr. Hillyer while young Buddy takes his own liking to Rose. The film follows Rose and her escapades with the law and with boys and chronicles her confrontations with Mr. Hillyer over her actions. She is a very unorthodox woman who uses her body instead of her mind to attract the attention of others, but her kind heart makes her genuine and hard to rally up against.
The film sports a very fine performance by Laura Dern, who manages to make Rose ... Read More
Rating: - Looking for love in all the wrong places
Rambling Rose is an absorbing, highly nuanced portrait of a young woman looking for love in all the wrong places. When Rose tells Buddy her secret that "girls don't want sex, they want love," it seems at the same time hackneyed and yet utterly, piercingly true. Rose is a classic Infernal Woman trailing calamity in her wake, but one who really does love everybody: man and woman, boy and girl. I felt considerable sympathy for her, even though I was oh! so glad that Daddy managed to stand firm. Thermopylae and the Persians: that will be my personal mantra in the face of temptation from now on.
Some reviewers have tried to paint this movie as a case study of Patriarchal Society trying to Inhibit Female Sexuality. The reality in the movie (as in life) is not so simple: a probable victim of incest as a girl and then orphaned, Rose is heartbreakingly genuine as she searches (however ineffectually) for the things that have so far eluded her: parental love, familial belonging, love for her as herself and not for what can be found between her legs. In contrast, the Hillyer family (in particular, the honest, tender relationship between the parents), shows what love, belonging, and trust are made of. Mr and Mrs Hillyer each grasps a significant, but contradictory, truth about Rose; it is their love and respect for each other that limits Rose's capacity to damage the family.
Laura Dern is magnificently compelling, even enchanting, as Rose. Robert Duvall's Daddy embodies the charm and ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - Whose body is it, anyway?
Another movie that kept me on the edge of my seat. I originally was intrigued my Lukas Haas, of whom I have been a fan since "Witness." The theme of "unbridled female sexuality" and how it was often "handled" in more primitive times is unsettling, as it should be. The concept of a woman not owning her own body is one our society continues to struggle with, and it is a tribute to Laura Dern's integrity that she was willing to take on a film that made such a statement - the footprint of a career that continues that work.
I am uncomfortable with the sexuality beteen Haas and Dern, in spite of the Rose's endearing remorse. Again, is sex between adult and child something we want to continue to normalize in a culture that claims concern for the safety of children? Or is art beyond that kind of responsiblity? I wish I knew. It's a powerful question, though.
And we wonder why our young actors end up in trouble.
Witness (Special Collector's Edition)
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