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Ulee's Gold
Orion Pictures Corporation
FILM:
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 |

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...
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.

90
The New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
Beautiful and heartfelt, an oasis of humanity in a season of furious hyperbole.

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.

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.

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.

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.

88
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The highest compliment I can offer Ulee's Gold is that it plays more like real life than a movie.

88
USA Today
Mike Clark
An emotionally honest low-ebber that builds to a satisfying wrap-up.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Nunez has a gift for finding the essence, the soul, of his actors.

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.

80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The film becomes a modest delight.

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.

80
Newsweek
David Ansen
Ulee's Gold possesses an attribute that's increasingly rare in American filmmaking, independent or Hollywood: call it soul.

75
San Francisco Examiner
Walter Addiego
Nunez's style is quiet, simple and deliberate, but the film never drags.

75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Peter Fonda's the bee's knees in the performance of his career.

70
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Still, flaws and all, we have to be grateful to Nunez for persisting in his independence.

70
Slate
David Edelstein
Nunez's movies go places, but with no acceleration.

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.

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.

60
TV Guide
Ken Fox
The power of an otherwise carefully crafted film is undone by risky and not altogether successful casting.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Worthy but dull.

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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