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The Rising Place (2002)


THE RISING PLACE
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CAST & CREW
Laurel Holloman, Elise Neal, Frances Fisher
Directed by Tom Rice
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SYNOPSIS
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. more...

MPAA RATING
PG-13, for elements of violence

RUNTIME
1 hour, 33 minutes

RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Nov 8, 2002

RELEASE COMPANY
Flatland Pictures

GENRE
Dramas, War, World War II, Pregnancy, Racism, Families, 1940s

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The Official The Rising Place Site

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 RATING: ROTTEN  READING: 14%
(FRESH = 60% or Greater)
  Reviews counted: 14
Fresh: 2  Rotten: 12
Average Rating: 4.7/10
  
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  "Salutes an interracial friendship between two Southern women and the ways in which enthusiasm can be a life-saving gift in tough times."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH

2/5  "Sticky sweet sentimentality, clumsy plotting and a rosily myopic view of life in the WWII-era Mississippi Delta undermine this adaptation."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE

  "[Creates] the worst kind of mythologizing, the kind that sacrifices real heroism and abject suffering for melodrama."
-- Maria Garcia, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

  "The overall feel is not unlike watching a glorified episode of "7th Heaven.""
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE

  "However sincere it may be, The Rising Place never quite justifies its own existence."
-- Mark Olsen, L.A. WEEKLY

C  "Never rises above its own unleavened blandness."
-- E! ONLINE

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A  "A solid cast, assured direction and complete lack of modern day irony."
-- Edward Havens, FILMJERK.COM

2/4  "Rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS

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1.5/5  "This misty-eyed Southern nostalgia piece, in treading the line between sappy and sanguine, winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES

  "Yet another weepy Southern bore-athon."
-- Nat Johnson, VILLAGE VOICE

2/4  "Looks awfully like one long tourist spot for a Mississippi that may never have existed outside of a scriptwriter's imagination."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST

  "A not-so-Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood with a hefty helping of Re-Fried Green Tomatoes."
-- Michael Rechtshaffen, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

1/4  "It is one more celluloid testimonial to the cruelties experienced by Southern blacks as distilled through a Caucasian perspective."
-- Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY

2/5  "Rice is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any edge or personality to The Rising Place that would set it apart from other Deep South stories."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES

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