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Rambling Rose is the most part a flashback, related by grown-up Southerner Buddy Hillyer ( John Heard ). The bulk of the film takes place in 1935, when rambunctious backwoods housekeeper Rose ( Laura Dern ) virtually invades the Hillyer household. Daddy Hillyer ( Robert Duvall ), a bed-rock Southern gentleman, welcomes the congenitally amoral but basically goodhearted Rose into his house, carefully fending off her ill-timed romantic advances. But Rose can't help herself, and soon she is sexually initiating young Buddy ( Lukas Haas ). Disturbed at the number of lascivious young swains hanging around his yard, Daddy grudgingly agrees with a narrow-minded local doctor ( Kevin Conway ) that perhaps Rose should be "fixed" so she won't become pregnant. Based on the novel by screenwriter Calder Willingham , Rambling Rose was not the box-office breakthrough that many expected for director Martha Coolidge ; though it fizzled financially, the film did manage to secure Oscar nominations for both Dern and her real-life mother Diane Ladd . — Hal Erickson
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| Laura Dern | Rose |
| Robert Duvall | Daddy Hillyer |
| Diane Ladd | Mother Hillyer |
| Lukas Haas | Willcox "Buddy" Hillyer |
| John Heard | Willcox Hillyer |
| Kevin Conway | Dr. Martinson |
| Robert John Burke | Police Chief David Wilkie |
| Lisa Jakub | Doll Hillyer |
| Evan Lockwood | Waski Hillyer |
| Matt Sutherland | Billy |
| Director | Martha Coolidge |
| Producer | Renny Harlin |
| Edition Details | |
| Distributor | Lions Gate |
| Barcode | 012236118220 |
| Region | Region 1 |
| Chapters | 23 |
| Release Date | 2002 |
| Packaging | Keep Case |
| Screen Ratio | Standard 1.33:1 Color |
| Audio Tracks | ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround [CC] |
| Layers | Single Side, Single Layer |
| No. of Disks/Tapes | 1 |
| Personal Details | |
| Purchase Price | $9.98 |
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