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Ulee's Gold
EMAILPRINTOrion Pictures Corporation

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 23 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 3 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by: Victor Nunez
Directed by: Victor Nunez
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 6, 1997
DVD: May 1, 2001
Running Time: 111 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R
Starring Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson, Christine Dunford, Tom Wood, Jessica Biel, Vanessa Zima, Steven Flynn, and Dewey Weber
The story of Ulysses Jackson (Fonda), a solitary beekeeper working in the tupelo marshes of the Florida Panhandle and caring for his two grandchildren. The trio lives an ordered, if somewhat narrow life until a call from Jackson's son in jail changes everything. (Orion Pictures)
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Ulee's Gold is a story of redemption, and Nunez doesn't make redemption look any easier than it is.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Elvis Mitchell
Beautiful and heartfelt, an oasis of humanity in a season of furious hyperbole.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Ulee's Gold stands out for its sureness, its quiet emotional force and writer-director Victor Nunez's ability to find and nurture the mystery and power in the events of an ordinary life.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
Though it occasionally wears its metaphors on its sleeve, Ulee's Gold should, if there's any justice, find the same thoughtful-drama-hungry audience that made "Sling Blade" a hit.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Nunez finds a striking lyricism in simple lives that inspires an uncommonly fine cast and ranks him as a world-class filmmaker.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Russell Smith
Fonda brings all of his childhood frustration and angst to the screen in one of the year's most unexpectedly brilliant acting performances.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
The highest compliment I can offer Ulee's Gold is that it plays more like real life than a movie.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
An emotionally honest low-ebber that builds to a satisfying wrap-up.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Nunez has a gift for finding the essence, the soul, of his actors.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ernest Hardy
Nunez is a master at rendering emotionally complex, ordinary folk into the kind of unassuming heroes that don't much appear in American films anymore.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Leisurely pacing of this kind is likely to register as a form of respect for the viewer's intelligence and observation.
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
Ulee's Gold possesses an attribute that's increasingly rare in American filmmaking, independent or Hollywood: call it soul.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Examiner Walter Addiego
Nunez's style is quiet, simple and deliberate, but the film never drags.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Peter Fonda's the bee's knees in the performance of his career.
Read Full Review >The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann
Still, flaws and all, we have to be grateful to Nunez for persisting in his independence.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
Nunez achieves a rare, and rarely earned, emotional depth that rewards the moderate demands he makes on contemporary viewers' short attention spans.
Read Full Review >Film.com Tom Keogh
A very pleasant experience in watching life unfold in its own direction and time.
New Times (L.A.) Michael Sragow
Nunez's direction is as self-consciously homey as a floral welcome mat.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
The power of an otherwise carefully crafted film is undone by risky and not altogether successful casting.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Schickel
Nunez's film neither floats like a butterfly nor stings like a bee. It just drones on.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.3 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
frasier k. gave it a10:
Great movie with acting ove jessica beil.
Pat C. gave it an 8:
Authentic and appropriately crafted. Fonda's character seems dull witted as an actual person, but is not a dumbed down composite character. This film is worth the investment of time for the thoughtful movie goer, but it doesn't cater to the lowest common denominator.
