Rambling Rose

I understand what the person making this movie was trying to sympathetically impart, and because I never read the book this film was based on, I don't know how successful her interpretation is. However, I have to say it is a very uneven movie. It's excessively talky where people are in one scene (usually bed) ruminating over their concerns, repeatedly. Rose tearfully begs Buddy, over and over, "not to tell" when some rather inappropriate petting play occurs between the 19 year old girl and the 13 year old boy. Mother and Daddy chew over the problems and concerns of having a preternaturally libidinous girl in their home, ad infinitum. It's as if the golden, bucolic, richly warm Southern scenery grinds to a halt as soon as people wrap themselves up in their discussions and talk, talk, talk, repeating their phrases over again, so that the audiences gets the point: this nice genteel family has taken in a problem teenager, a "promiscuous" young lady from a disadvantaged home. Okay, viewers GET it.The clothes were wrong. Even a girl of Rose's impoverished background, in a slow-moving, possibly backward Southern town (in this case "backward" meaning out of step with current styles of the era), would have been more conscious of contemporary fashion, if this movie, as the blurb says, takes place in 1935. Yet Rose is dressed like a shabby flapper of 1929, and it's not because she is down at heel and can't afford new clothes, wearing the knee-length filmy chiffon dresses and battered cloche hat which are obviously the hand-me-downs from someone who'd worn them a decade earlier. The fact that she would dress up and go to town in blatanty out-of-style attire is totally against her character of seductively attracting attention. Yes, she does attract attention, but in real life, no matter how sexily appealing her appearance, no girl of that age would deliberately go out in public in such out-of-date clothing to socially lure people to her. I kept wondering what year I was watching -- Rose in her tight, skimpy, above-the- knees 1920's flapper dresses; cars ranging from tin lizzies to late 1930's models with their rounded bumpers; Daddy in his bow tie and straw fedora and buttoned vest in hot summer, also looking like someone from the previous decade; Mother's long pageboy hairstyle instead of the curled marcel wave of the mid 1930's, but with the big hats and longer skirts of circa 1935. It was a bit confusing. I know audiences are supposed to have a suspension of disbelief, but something setting the scene in a pastoral Southern community during the Great Depression could have been researched to look more accurate.I was less disturbed by Buddy's erotic interest in Rose than many other viewers. Buddy wasn't a childish little boy, but a maturing (if not yet strapping) teenager with a changed voice, and 13-year-olds can be either way according to their physical development. It's understandable that, obviously well into puberty, he would be lured by smutty "Tijuana Bible" sex comic books and a seductive girl in her late teens living in the house and practically throwing herself into his lap, certainly into his bed. Of course no one should have taken advantage of the situation, but Rose does not understand what is appropriate behavior, even though she chides Buddy that "it isn't right," and "you're just a kid." Buddy is also very intellectually precocious, and that adds to his prurient interest in the sort of trouble Rose caused in her communnity and the fascination he has for her.I have to confess I frankly became bored with the movie after awhile, following the scene where the pompous doctor lectures Mother and Daddy about Rose and whether she ought to be -- I guess sterilized isn't the word, since she was rendered infertile in her early teens by an unattended gonnorheal infection, but somehow reduced sexually by a complete hysterectomy. The three of them sat around sounding like musty textbooks from 80 years ago, and yet the film strongly hints in the doctor's lecherous interest in Rose for himself. Does he or doesn't he? It's too ambiguous. We also don't get a character development of any of the beaux and besotted swains who vie for Rose's attention and fight over her. Buddy, instead of being eaten apart by jealousy the way any adolescent boy living in a house with a girl like that would be, stands by observing, with a wryly amused smirk on his face. It doesn't add up. There just seems to be a big chunk of something missing out of all the characters -- hard of hearing Mother's own soft, unintelligible mumbling; Daddy attracted by this rowdy girl and yet constantly scolding her and worried about her; the two younger kids in the family overhearing all sorts of precocious talk in the household and giggling knowingly about it, and dryly amused Buddy with his melodramatically sadistic questions, a roue in miniature without a smidgen of typical growing-teen angst and fumbling confusion about him. This movie just slipped out of what it was intending to portray.

This dvd got great reviews, but when I opened it up the dvd was Princess Diaries. It was a good movie, but was more of a young lady’s movie.

First (and only) bad news: No Blue Ray.Second, the good news: Great movie, both Robert Duvall and Laura Dern are exceptional. Takes you back to a mor innocent, and harder time in the U.S., the depression. Good family movie (for adults). However, are some sexual situations that are not appropriate for young children.Laura Dern's performance inspired Steven Spielberg to cast her as Ellie in 'Jurassic Park'.

Rambling Rose is a Film you won't soon forget!The Country Southern setting lends itself over Completely to each of these 6 entirely Eccentric Southern characters.Mom & Dad played by Dianne Ladd & Robert Duvall, with a newcomer to their brood of 3 children, Rose– played by a young Laura Dern, is hired as a domestic via phone and letter, sight unseen.The family feels pity for Rose as her family has all died, leaving her penniless and having been approached and refused to work as a prostitute in Louisiana.Rose is welcomed and treated with Love and Care by the entire Clan, but soon one thing after another, Calamity ensues until Rose puts the Family into a precarious situation.A Great Quality DVD and Production, I'm Proud to Own Rambling Rose. 🌹

What an excellent cast! With Laura Dern as a very young unprepared woman taken in by a quirky family with Robert Duvall as the dad, Diane Ladd as the kind, caring mother and Lucas Haas (the little boy in Witness) as the very hormonal teenage son this movie is a tender laugh fest, which is a nice combo. And you'll get to know what "the epizooties" are ....

Great movie

Good acting amusing but sad. Good acting. Thanks

Very sexual. The study of a young woman realizing her power over men.

Great to get this hard to find film at last, very promt service and I will use this site againand recommend to others

Speedy delivery. Everything as expected

Lo.acabo.de recibir Ya la he visto. Y es muy entretenida Excelentes interpretaciones y un argumento ameno

Great movie.

Especially entertaining film with super cast