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Mood:
- ContemplativeSentimentalTouchingCaptivatingBittersweetThought Provoking
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- OrphanComing of AgeCouple RelationsFall in LoveAmericanaPregnancyLove and RomanceSociety more...
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- DramaPeriodRomanceMelodrama
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- 20th Century40sWorld War 2
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- Maine
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- Brief NudityMild Violent Content
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The Cider House Rules , 1999
English
USA
Profile of The Cider House Rules
The Cider House Rules can be described as bittersweet, contemplative, and sentimental. The plot revolves around an orphan, pregnancy, and Americana. The main genres are drama, romance, and period. In terms of style, The Cider House Rules is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. The Cider House Rules is located in Maine. It takes place during World War 2. It is based on a book. The Cider House Rules has received attention for being an Oscar winner and critically acclaimed. Note that it involves brief nudity and mild violent content.
Summary of The Cider House Rules
THE CIDER HOUSE RUES, an expertly crafted and intelligent adapation of John Irving's novel, explores themes of disappointment, ideas of moral ambiguity, and, indeed, lessons about life itself, woven into a dramatic story that is neither slow nor sentimental. Tobey Maguire is the immensely likable Homer Wells, a lifelong resident of a Maine orphanage who comes of age during WWII under the auspices of its director, Dr. Wilbur Larch (Michael Caine). Larch is pragmatic, progressive, highly intelligent, and loathe to let Homer go out into the world. He sees him as a son, and the only one whose medical training allows for him to take over when he retires from his job as physician, obstetrician, and illegal abortionist. When ingenue Candy (Charlize Theron) and air force adventurer Wally (Paul Rudd), come to Larch for help with an abortion, Homer befriends the couple and, against Larch's wishes, sets off with them to see the world, or at least the rest of Maine. Working at an apple orchard owned by Wally's mother (Kate Nelligan), Homer lives and works with a group of African-American migrant workers, among them the morally ambiguous Mr. Rose Delroy Lindo and his beloved daughter Rose Rose (Erykah Badu in a stunning debut). When Wally goes off to war, and Rose Rose gets into a complex and frightening situation, Homer is faced with serious choices and dilemmas that can only be solved by the wisdom he has learned from Larch. A classic, old-fashioned-style American film that deals directly with sensitive and taboo issues, THE CIDER HOUSE RULES is a beautifully acted, carefully paced story full of substance.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 13 January 2000 |
| Runtime: | 126 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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as Homer Wells
as Candy Kendall
as Dr. Wilbur Larch
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Critics Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
Lasse Hallström calms Irving's typically busy 1985 best-seller with a balm of the Swedish director's typically soothing lyricism.
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- by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Variety
A touching, old-fashioned charmer that ultimately satisfies.
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- by: David Rooney
Users Reviews
an excellent movie about the coming of age of an orphan, who decided, against all odds, to go out of the orphanage ans start a new life. this is a journey of a life and self discovery, when sometimes he has to learn things the hard way. one of the...
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