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RATING: ROTTEN  READING: 14% (FRESH = 60% or Greater)   Reviews counted: 14 Fresh: 2  Rotten: 12 Average Rating: 4.7/10

( Showing 1-14 of 14 Tomatometer Reviews, sorted a-z )   "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   "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   "Never rises above its own unleavened blandness." -- E! ONLINE This poster is not available for sale. Browse other posters Soundtrack Books All Related Items   "A solid cast, assured direction and complete lack of modern day irony." -- Edward Havens, FILMJERK.COM   "Rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them." -- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS Cream of the Crop ROTTEN 0%   "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   "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   "It is one more celluloid testimonial to the cruelties experienced by Southern blacks as distilled through a Caucasian perspective." -- Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY   "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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