Rambling Rose Movie Review 1991

Dern is Rose, a free-spirited, sexually liberated before her time young woman taken in by a Southern family in 1935. Rose immediately has an impact on the male members of the clan, father Duvall and son Haas, thanks to her insuppressible sexuality. This causes consternation with the strait-laced patriarch, who attempts to control his desire for the girl. Eventually Rose decides she must try to stick to one man, but this only causes further problems. Dern gives her best performance yet in this excellent period piece, and solid support is offered from the rest of the cast, in particular Duvall and Dern's real-life mother Ladd.

Distribution

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Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 115 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Sex & Sexuality, Teen Angst, Great Depression, Coming of Age, American South

Screenplay

Calder Willingham

Cast

Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Robert Duvall, Lukas Haas, John Heard, Kevin Conway, Robert John Burke, Lisa Jakub, Evan Lockwood

Cinematography

Johnny E. Jensen

Director

Martha Coolidge

Music

Elmer Bernstein

Producer

Seven Arts Pictures, New Line Cinema

Awards

Ind. Spirit 1992: Director (Coolidge), Film, Support. Actress (Ladd).