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Ulee's Gold
Orion Pictures Corporation

Ulee's Gold reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 77 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
8.3 out of 10
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MPAA 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)


GENRE(S): Drama  
WRITTEN BY: Victor Nunez  
DIRECTED BY: Victor Nunez  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: May 1, 2001 
Video: September 4, 2001 
Theatrical: June 6, 1997 
RUNNING TIME: 111 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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100
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Ulee's Gold is a story of redemption, and Nunez doesn't make redemption look any easier than it is.
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90
The New York Times Elvis Mitchell
Beautiful and heartfelt, an oasis of humanity in a season of furious hyperbole.
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90
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.
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90
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.
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90
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.
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89
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.
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88
ReelViews James Berardinelli
The highest compliment I can offer Ulee's Gold is that it plays more like real life than a movie.
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88
USA Today Mike Clark
An emotionally honest low-ebber that builds to a satisfying wrap-up.
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88
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Nunez has a gift for finding the essence, the soul, of his actors.
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80
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.
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80
Washington Post Desson Thomson
The film becomes a modest delight.
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80
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.
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80
Newsweek David Ansen
Ulee's Gold possesses an attribute that's increasingly rare in American filmmaking, independent or Hollywood: call it soul.
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75
San Francisco Examiner Walter Addiego
Nunez's style is quiet, simple and deliberate, but the film never drags.
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75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Peter Fonda's the bee's knees in the performance of his career.
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70
The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann
Still, flaws and all, we have to be grateful to Nunez for persisting in his independence.
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70
Slate David Edelstein
Nunez's movies go places, but with no acceleration.
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70
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.
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70
Film.com Tom Keogh
A very pleasant experience in watching life unfold in its own direction and time.
60
New Times (L.A.) Michael Sragow
Nunez's direction is as self-consciously homey as a floral welcome mat.
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60
TV Guide Ken Fox
The power of an otherwise carefully crafted film is undone by risky and not altogether successful casting.
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50
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Worthy but dull.
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50
Time Richard Schickel
Nunez's film neither floats like a butterfly nor stings like a bee. It just drones on.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!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.

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