Rambling Rose

It's a beauty.

Willingham, who also scripted Paths of Glory, Little Big Man and The Graduate, wrote Rose in the early 1970s. Thanks to these sterling performances almost two decades later, his screenplay enjoys a fresh and tender blossoming.

[A] funny, moving, spectacularly acted little film.

The movie is all character and situation, and contains some of the best performances of the year, especially in the ensemble acting of the four main characters.

Seen in a flashback through the eyes of an adolescent, this uncommon coming-of-age tale, which raises poignant questions about the mysteries of sex and love, flaunts a superb performance from Laura Dern as the promiscuous girl

A quirky, funny but moving story with terrific performances all around.

Probes the mixture of fear and awe many men experience when they meet the life-force of women.

A modest but pleasingly adult entertainment at a time when even the most promising American films ultimately revert to Pollyannaish platitudes.

So much here is rich and touching, not to mention the string of superb performances, that the film still merits a recommendation.

Truly extraordinary performances, the familiar yet rarely predictable script and the fertile subtext that looks at sexuality and desire through feminist question marks, makes 'Rambling Rose' one of the year's most touching and absorbing movie experiences.

A touching, humorous and enjoyable film.