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The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
Jack lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose. Since the breakup of the commune, Jack has sheltered Rose completely from the influences of the outside world, but now his fatal illness and Rose's emerging womanhood pose troubling questions about the days ahead. A man who has lived a life motivated by environmentalism, Jack now rages at those who do not share his aesthetic, like developer Marty Rance, who is building a housing tract on the edge of his property. (read more)
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The Ballad of Jack and Rose Movie Review by Bobby B  (1/28/2008) |
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This bizarre and deeply unsettling movie feels like a mess of good intentions, misguided choices and naked talent. It starts out as a seemingly simple portrait of two people in love on an island. Jack and Rose are the Adam and Eve of their perfect reality. The film gets infinitely more complicated when it becomes...
(complete The Ballad of Jack and Rose review by Bobby B)
| The Ballad of Jack and Rose Movie Review by Tony (3/31/2006) |
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"The Ballad of Jack and Rose" was a movie I expected way more then what I got out of it. I figure you got Daniel Day Lewis, who is one of the best actors in Hollywood but also one of the pickiest when it comes to the films he does. Throw in Catherine Keener of "40 Year Old Virgin" fame and some underrated but good actors....
(complete The Ballad of Jack and Rose review by Tony)
| The Ballad of Jack and Rose Movie Review by Elizabeth (3/24/2005) |
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The first word that comes to my mind when I think of Rebecca Miller's THE BALLAD OF JACK AND ROSE is "challenging." This is not an easy movie to describe or to digest. If you're in search of a light evening's entertainment, then keep looking. Miller's real-life husband Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Jack, a man living alone...
(complete The Ballad of Jack and Rose review by Elizabeth)
| The Ballad of Jack and Rose Movie Review by Emily (2/3/2007) |
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((SPOILERS))
To say that this movie changed my life would be a little bit of an understatement. Daniel Day-Lewis gives a stunning preformance of Jack, a man who hates the idea of a modern life, so he has taken his daughter Rose, (Camilla Belle), to live in a small commune, with no other people. She has no human...
(complete The Ballad of Jack and Rose review by Emily)
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