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- 2002
- PG-13
- Artist View Entertainment
- 1 h 33 m
- 2002
- PG-13
- Artist View Entertainment
- 1 h 33 m
Summary 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)
Directed By: Tom Rice
Written By: David Armstrong, Tom Rice
- 2002
- PG-13
- Artist View Entertainment
- 1 h 33 m
- 2002
- PG-13
- Artist View Entertainment
- 1 h 33 m
The Rising Place
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Summary 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)
Directed By: Tom Rice
Written By: David Armstrong, Tom Rice
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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67% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
33% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
32
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
67% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
33% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
As earnest as its artless young characters, Tom Rice's intermittently affecting debut walks a well-trod path without finding anything very new.
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.
Deeply felt but flat and unimaginative.
Broadway dreamgirl Jennifer Holliday's musical interludes occasionally relieve this mélange of recycled social morality lessons.
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clumsy plotting and a rosily myopic view of life in the WWII-era Mississippi Delta undermine this adaptation of an unpublished novel by David Armstrong.
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.
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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Production Company
Flatland Pictures
Release Date Nov 8, 2002
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline A story about discovering your heart in a place you never expected.
Awards
Santa Monica Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Stony Brook Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Heartland International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
