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Rambling Rose

Innocence has never been so seductive.

1991 · 1h 52m · R Drama
Directed by Martha Coolidge

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Overview

In the Deep South of the 1930s, Rose is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Her appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and she knows it. She can't help herself from getting into trouble with men.

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It's a beauty.

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Fresh

[A] funny, moving, spectacularly acted little film.

Hal Hinson, Washington Post
Fresh

Willingham, who also scripted Paths of Glory, Little Big Man and The Graduate, wrote Rose in the early 1970s. Thanks to these sterling performances almost two decades later, his screenplay enjoys a fresh and tender blossoming.

Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Fresh

The movie is all character and situation, and contains some of the best performances of the year, especially in the ensemble acting of the four main characters.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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