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Rambling Rose [1991]

Starring: Laura Dern, Robert Duvall, Diane Ladd, Lukas Haas, John Heard
Director: Martha Coolidge
Format: Closed-captioned Colour Dolby DVD-Video Letterboxed Special Edition Widescreen PAL
Released: 16 Mar 1999
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Strikes like a cobra! - By: Allweneedofhell, 01 Apr 2008
You get to look at the never short of delectable Laura Dern alll the way through the film, plus you get to hear Robert Duvalll say "strikes like a Cobra!" in the best southern accent ever. If anyone could ask for more out a motion picture than that, then that's their problem.
As bees are drawn to a colorful bloom - By: Joseph Haschka, 22 Mar 2003
RAMBLING ROSE takes a compassionate & humorous look at the phenomenon of social turbulence caused by an "unattached" woman. Rose, flamboyantly played by Laura Dern, is the blithe, single, 19-year old girl invited to live with a very proper Southern family in the mid-1930s. The family, offering Rose help at this difficult time in her life, includes Daddy (Robert Duvalll), Mother (Diane Ladd, Dern's real-life mother), & 13-year old Buddy (Lukas Haas). Rose, already possessing a checkered history acquired with unspecified men, is a "free spirit", who proceeds to cause hormonal havoc in the town's male population. Even Daddy is bewitched. To Buddy, Rose is, unsurprisingly, the godsend of a new awareness. Of the adults, only Mother, recognizing Rose as essentiallly guileless, staunchly defends her as the repercussions of the Siren's residence start to add up.

A better film on much the same theme is Y2K's MALENA - a superb Italian production. Nonetheless, RAMBLING ROSE is delightful. Dern is positively captivating. Duvalll is at his best, which is pretty darn good by any measure. Ladd portrays Mother as a slightly eccentric individual whose generosity towards & understanding of Rose is a clear counterpoint to the hardening attitudes of the other adults. The Buddy character should remind alll males in the viewing audience of that time when they were 13 & discovering girls as beings with something more to offer than simply opportunities for boorish teasing. I like this film very much.