![]() ![]() Yet "Rambling Rose" always finds some fresh angle. Dern as the sexually eager young thing, the actors are superb, though they have all played these types too often for anyone to be surprised at how good they are here. ![]() When Mother talks about the mystical meaning of the universe, her crusty, gentlemanly husband (Robert Duvall) says she is "lost in the fourth dimension" again. Diane Ladd is the smart but slightly loony mother, who takes off her hearing aid to work on her master's thesis for Columbia University. The Hillyer household is full of types, and the casting is pat. Her blond ringlets peek out from her close-fitting hat and her long legs are clearly visible beneath her sheer flowered dress - a dress worn, we're meant to notice, without a petticoat. Or was it the other way around? As she approaches the yard, she manages to looks innocent, gawky and provocative with no effort at all. Rose (Laura Dern) has been sent to work as the Hillyers' servant because too many men have pursued her at home. ![]() "Rambling Rose" sounds like it will be full of molasses, but when the story moves back to 1935, it becomes honest, engaging and quite a lot like its perky, disreputable heroine. He is heading toward a flashback about the dusty old days when he was a 13-year-old called Buddy, with a life-shaping crush on a sweet but wild young woman named Rose.Īs the adult Buddy Hillyer, John Heard assumes a hopeless Southern accent to say, "In deep Dixieland, the month of Octobah is almost summry," a line worth mentioning only because it so glaringly sets the wrong tone. In 1971, a middle-aged man drives to his hometown in Georgia. Before you can get to the wry tone and strong-willed people of "Rambling Rose," you have to sit through a short corn-pone opening. ![]()
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