The Ballad of Jack and Rose Page #3

Synopsis: Jack lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose. Jack has sheltered Rose from the influences of the outside world, but now Rose's emerging womanhood poses troubling questions about the days ahead. A man who has lived a life motivated by environmentalism and other altruistic causes, Jack now rages at those who do not share his concerns, like developer Marty Rance, who is building a housing tract on the edge of his property. When Jack invites his girlfriend Kathleen and her sons Rodney and Thaddius to live with them, Rose feels betrayed and the situation quickly becomes precarious. Rose acts out wildly, creating chaos. As everything flies out of control, Jack finds himself trapped in an impossible place and is forced to take action.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Rebecca Miller
Production: IFC Films
  3 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
59
Rotten Tomatoes:
48%
R
Year:
2005
112 min
£578,570
Website
258 Views


- No, no... - Oh, that's cooked

food for the chickens

and that's raw food for the compost and

the big one... metal and plastic, paper.

- You'll get the hang of it.

- Yeah. OK.

Any questions about

the house, ask Rose.

One of you can sleep in

here for the time being,

and the other one's on the couch until

we get one of the outbuildings fixed up.

- That's fine.

- Is that all right with you?

- Mm-hm.

- It's so quiet in here.

It's like the inside of a can.

Hey, where's the TV?

No TV.

Are you working at

the moment, Rodney?

I've been studying to be

a women's hairdresser.

What brought you to that?

Erm...

I always wanted to be a barber,

but men don't get enough

pleasure out of their hair.

Did you do er...?

Kathleen.

- Yeah. Her hair?

- No, I didn't do Kathy's hair.

My mother likes to think of

herself as being 16 years old.

- Oh, Rodney!

- I'm sure if I cut her hair off,

she would have a

breakdown of some kind.

How do you make your money?

I inherited the family business

when my father died, so I sold it.

- Oh. So you're loaded? - I don't think

you need to worry about that.

- Mom said you were an engineer.

- That's what I studied.

- Er... alternative energy.

- You got your degree in England?

Scotland, but I've been

an American since 1972.

Naturalised citizen,

God help me.

Why did you do it, then?

Because I fell in love with this country,

or... what I thought it was going to become.

You've got one more year

of school left, is that right?

- Yeah, I guess so. - I was expelled

in the last year of high school.

Why?

For defecating in the thirteenth

hole of the school golf course.

- Your school had a golf course?

- He's doing real well in school.

- Is that for me?

- Yeah, sweetie. It's a cheese sandwich.

I haven't seen one

like that since 1953.

- I'll be right back.

- OK.

Sorry.

Rose...

Don't make me bloody

well chase after you!

They're not guests.

They're moving in!

They're guests, until we see.

Just see how it works out.

- They brought everything!

- Everything?

They brought their lamps!

I've got to admit,

those lamps were shocking.

Look, it's just an

experiment, Rosie.

Let's just try it for a while

to see how it works out.

God forbid, you might even

end up wanting them to stay!

- You tricked me!

- It was a spur-of-the-moment decision.

She's so regular.

Kathleen, her name is,

by the way.

That's the whole point.

She'll take care of things.

- I took care of things!

- We took care of things. Now I'm sick.

How long have you

been lying to me?

How could you

not have told me?

I didn't think you'd understand.

I don't.

Hey, little freak.

Ever eaten a snake before?

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Rebecca Miller

Rebecca Augusta Miller, Lady Day-Lewis (born September 15, 1962) is an American independent filmmaker and novelist, known for her films Angela, Personal Velocity: Three Portraits, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, and Maggie's Plan, all of which she wrote and directed. Miller is the daughter of Arthur Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, and his third wife Inge Morath, Magnum photographer. more…

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