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Reviews Counted: 108
Fresh: 50
Rotten:58
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Consensus: Heavy on the symbolism and overly contrived.
Theatrical Release: Mar 25, 2005 Limited
Box Office: $578,570
Synopsis: Writer-director Rebecca Miller's third film (following ANGELA and PERSONAL VELOCITY) is a powerful, poignant drama about a father and daughter living on their own on the outskirts of nowhere, just as developers are starting to move in.... [More]
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Camilla Belle, Catherine Keener, Paul Dano
Director: Rebecca Miller
The Ballad of Jack and Rose, like the community it elucidates, is not perfect. Like the people who try so desperately to make the most of the world in which they live, it is full of flaws, inconsistencies, and shortcomings.
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A disjointed collection of characters whose dysfunctional behavior modes only reinforce the aimlessness of the narrative.
It is the harbinger of great films to come from an exceptional screenwriter and director.
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Top Critic Belle is equally good, proving that she's a real movie star in the making - there's a sort of feral energy to Rose that's genuinely scary and disturbingly unpredictable.
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Top Critic Jack and Rose bears a haunting economy of style that appears as near-minimalist...Miller realizes her own screenplay with a stunning lack of self-consciousness.
It's about two-thirds a great movie and worth it for those two-thirds.
A fable of the end of innocence, complete with such symbols of paradise lost as a snake (a fugitive copperhead) and a toppled playhouse.
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.
[A] strange blend of a daughter's coming of age and a father's advancing toward death.
The always-superb Day-Lewis and bright newcomer Belle almost redeem this pretentious, improbable scenario. But almost isn't enough.
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