Fresh
Doesn't succeed in everything it sets out to do, but as a statement about the death rattle of 60s counterculture it's thoughtful and affecting.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
Selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.
2005 · 1h 51m · R
Drama
Directed by
Rebecca Miller
Overview
Jack Slavin is an environmentalist with a heart condition who lives with his daughter, Rose, on an isolated island. While Jack fights against developers who wish to build in the area, he also craves more contact with other people. When he invites his girlfriend, Kathleen, and her sons, Rodney and Thaddius, to move in, Rose is upset. The complicated family dynamics makes things difficult for everyone in the house.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
47%
Tomatometer
Fresh
As indie efforts go, The Ballad of Jack and Rose pushes a lot of the classic indie audience buttons, coupled with some depressingly mainstream ones.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Rotten
The entire movie seems to be suffering from the same suffocating disease as Jack.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
Fresh
We leave this movie hoping to see Miller and Lewis together again soon.
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail
Rotten
It's all strange and mildly unpleasant and self-consciously arty.
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic
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