Rambling Rose (1991)

Rose, is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Rose's appearence and personality is such that all men fall ... See full summary »

Director:

Martha Coolidge

Writers:

Calder Willingham (book), Calder Willingham (screenplay)

Stars:

Laura Dern, Robert Duvall, Diane Ladd

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 10 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Laura Dern	...	Rose
Robert Duvall	...	Daddy Hillyer
Diane Ladd	...	Mother
Lukas Haas	...	Buddy
John Heard	...	Willcox Hillyer (Buddy as an adult)
Kevin Conway	...	Dr. Martinson
Robert John Burke	...	Dave Wilkie (as Robert Burke)
Lisa Jakub	...	Doll
Evan Lockwood	...	Waski
Matthew Sutherland	...	Billy (as Matt Sutherland)
D. Anthony Pender	...	Foster
David E. Scarborough	...	Horton
Robin Dale Robertson	...	Young Salesman
General Fermon Judd Jr.	...	Shadrack
Richard K. Olsen	...	Chief of Police

Storyline

Rose, is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Rose's appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and Rose knows it. She can't help herself from getting into trouble with men. "Daddy" Hillier soon grows tired of Rose's rambling ways.

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Plot Keywords:

1930s | self discovery | nanny | great depression | teen angst | 

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Taglines:

Innocence has never been so seductive.

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Genres:

Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for sensuality

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

20 September 1991 (USA)

Also Known As:

As Noites de Rose

Filming Locations:

Carolco Studios - 1223 North 23rd Street, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$7,500,000 (estimated)

Gross:

$6,266,621 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Carolco Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

112 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Producer Renny Harlin originally wanted to direct also, but director Martha Coolidge had done so much work already that Harlin stayed only as producer, but was on the set all time.

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Goofs

When Rose is in bed with Buddy, the shot of the two of them shows her left arm being under the covers, and immediately the next shot is a closeup of Rose and her left arm is up and behind her head.

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Quotes

[first lines]
[title: Glennville, Georgia 1971]
Willcox Hillyer: [voiceover] In deep Dixieland, the month of October is almost summery.
[pause]
Willcox Hillyer: I had come south to visit my father. Mother had died a few years before, and Daddy was living all alone. He wouldn't have it otherwise.
[pause]
Willcox Hillyer: Looking at that old house, a painful nostalgia gripped me for the south itself, the old south I had known, and the people in it. When I was thirteen years old, a girl came to this house. I overheard my father decide in a conference ...

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Connections

Featured in The 64th Annual Academy Awards (1992)

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Soundtracks

"Dixie"
Music and Lyrics by Daniel Decatur Emmett
Performed by Louis Armstrong and The Dukes of Dixieland
Courtesy of MAJ Music, Inc.
Published by MAJ Music, Inc. (ASCAP)
Administered by Larry Spier, Inc.

User Reviews

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Laura Dern is sort of underrated, maybe that is because Miss Dern has commingled movie acting with TV roles. If she is not obviously a knockout, physically, then no I don't understand that view, since her pulchritude scores right up in the top BABE percentage as Kidman, Ryan, and the late Anna Nicole Smith. The Jurassic Park scientist who bounded across the compound running for her life(and Sam Neill) has the best legs of any actress in my mind. Laura Dern's acting competence is right up there at her feminine attractiveness.

Different from the very popular Jurassic Park. The less well-known comedy/drama is typically the old(1991) tape or DVD some person has back in a closet underneath a bunch of old videocassettes, eight-tracks, and various other old media. It belongs on a shelf next to Annie Hall or Beaches. Ramblin' Rose is a movie with a practical transference into a role of a simple but level-headed call girl in the South during the Depression Era. The woman is very down to earth, homey, and very sincere. But has a taste for good loving. Put it that way.

The time is the nineteen-thirties, and Ramblin' Rose is a movie you could see with anyone, who is an adult and appreciates a good movie. It feels like a seventies movie for some reason.