The Ballad of Jack and Rose

I didn't think I would like this one, but it turned out to be a movie that I will always remember. The story line was great.... Full review

And a waste of time. Just take my advice - nothing is really happening, it's one boring movie about bunch of weirdos. Not to mention that it's really hard to understand the old man with his accent (they should have incorporated... Full review

Don't bore us, get to the cottonpickin' chorus! Yup, more like a medley than a ballad cuz too much was going on at the same time. I was seriously disappointed with Paul Dano's character Thaddius. Cute name, crappy personality. Paul Dano... Full review

This movie was, in a word, distasteful. Not that it had to be a feel-good movie for me to like it but I just found it unsettling and ... distasteful. It could have been made in a less in-your-face way and... Full review

Great movie. Paul Dano is awesome in it and he is sooo hot!! The plot is a little slow at first but it is worth the wait. The movie pulls at your heart strings and everyone should see it.... Full review

There's nothing I can say bad about this film, but there's nothing especially good either. The movie's been made plenty of times before. It's the coming of age, loss of innocence, daddy-daughter kind of movie. There's no variety to the theme,... Full review

I was completely surprised. The innocence, purity, the love we're alwaying searching, and the faith, the innocent faith...extrmely beautiful movie with a heart. The most touching, deep, humanity movie I haven't seen in a long time. I am going to see... Full review

As I walked quietly through Blockbuster one evening, observing each new release intently as I always do, I came across a film I'd wanted to see for a while. The Ballad of Jack and Rose. To my dismay, all of the... Full review

When I read the back of the movie box I expected something completely different. It didn't give me any idea about the movie. The Blurp made it sound a lot better than it really was. Don't watch this movie don't waste... Full review

This film captures the essence of a man. Jack believes fervently in saving the wetlands, but then he comes to self-realization. Great acting!... Full review

Like belligerent teen Rose, this lyrical ballad shows flashes of greatness but is also prone to melodrama and self-importance. ultimately leaving the film feeling more pretentious than poignant ... Full Review

In short, this is an intriguing, thought-provoking and frequently intense drama with terrific performances from a superb cast.....Intense, intriguing and sharply-written drama with strong performances from Day-Lewis and Belle and a terrific supporting cast.....The performances are superb.....The supporting cast are terrific too, with Keener, Beau Bridges (as a land developer with his eye on the island), Jason Lee (in a small but effective role) and Ryan McDonald the stand-outs..... ... Full Review

The movie looks and sounds great on dvd, but what you see is all you get. An engineer in training, Jack's house is smartly designed to conform with the hill into which it is set. While well shot and acted ... Full Review

Rebecca Miller's gentle coming-of-age drama, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, flirts with this borderline inappropriate relationship.....Terrific performances and production values go a long way in obscuring Miller's diffuse and rambling script.....Day-Lewis and Keener click, and their acting lifts young Ms. Belle's natural radiance into the realm of good acting.They make her better..... ... Full Review

The quality of the Ballad was reminiscent of Ashley Simpson's performance at the Orange Bowl, and I found the film to be more agonizing to watch than a rectal exam. I began to bother my companions and considered walking out of the movie, but I decided to stay for the hokey melodramatic comic relief. ... Full Review

Sure enough, five minutes into our interview, Keener takes three sachets of sugar, meant for her coffee, and tips them into her soup. "Oh my god, I just poured all my sugar into my lunch! ... Full Article

The common complaint this year at Sundance has been that there are a ton of good films, but few truly great ones. Last January, we had a slew of buzzworthy narrative films, ranging from The Ballad of Jack and Rose... ... Full Article

One of the finest films so far this year is also one of the most overlooked. Rebecca Miller, daughter of the great playwright Arthur Miller, has written and directed her second feature film The Ballad of Jack and Rose .... ... Full Article

Day-Lewis is superb as contemporary drop-out Jack, a dyed-in-the-wool free spirit who's raising an introspective 16-year-old daughter (Camilla Belle as Rose) in the untamed wilderness of a remote island off the Eastern coast of the U.S. Jack and Rose are ... Full Article

Rebecca Miller's "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" is carried along just so far by the mesmeric performances of her husband, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Camilla Belle in the title roles. They play a father and daughter who are the only ... Full Article

Jack Slavin's life has been a series of failed experiments.There's the free-love marriage that ended when his wife walked out, the shared-property commune that his fellow utopians eventually abandoned, and finally, the losing battle with a fatal disease. ... Full Article