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Rising Place, The

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Rising Place, The reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Tom Rice

Directed by: Tom Rice

Release Date:
Theatrical: November 8, 2002

Running Time: 93 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG-13 for elements of violence

Starring Laurel Holloman, Elise Neal, Mark Webber, Liam Aiken, Bill Campbell, Gary Cole, Alice Drummond, and Frances Fisher

Set in the Mississippi Delta in the 1940's, The Rising Place is a delicate look at a young woman's passionate quest for self awareness and acceptance in a time of social injustice and world war. (Flatland Pictures)

What The Critics Said

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50

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

This low-key drama is always warm and mellow, although it doesn't build much of an emotional charge.

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50

New York Post Lou Lumenick

This cliché-filled labor of love is staffed with some fine performers - Jennifer Holliday sings at a juke joint and Frances Sternhagen plays an older version of Emily's sister.

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50

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

As earnest as its artless young characters, Tom Rice's intermittently affecting debut walks a well-trod path without finding anything very new.

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40

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

Deeply felt but flat and unimaginative.

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40

Village Voice Nat Johnson

Broadway dreamgirl Jennifer Holliday's musical interludes occasionally relieve this mélange of recycled social morality lessons.

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40

TV Guide Ken Fox

Sticky sweet sentimentality, clumsy plotting and a rosily myopic view of life in the WWII-era Mississippi Delta undermine this adaptation of an unpublished novel by David Armstrong.

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30

Variety Scott Foundas

An ultra-touchy-feely race-relations, civil-rights drama as imagined by theme-park organizers, with every character painted in broad strokes in a story that eagerly tugs at every available heartstring -- and rings false at every turn.

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30

LA Weekly Mark Olsen

As a first-time filmmaker who juggles such duties as writing, directing, producing, even playing piano solos on the soundtrack, Rice is in over his head.

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20

The New York Times Stephen Holden

This misty-eyed Southern nostalgia piece, in treading the line between sappy and sanguine, winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand.

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What Our Users Said

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