The Rising Place

I've seen this movie 6 times and I love it. The cast is great and the story explores all kinds of different issues. Worth seeing! The music is very good. The story is about issues that are still relevant today.... Full review

I never got out of my seat once it began. I especially loved the relationship between the two friends. I have told everyone I know about how wonderful it was. This is a movie I would watch again.... Full review

This storyline is interesting in its subject matter, but I did find that the movie moves along quite slowly and seems a bit flat in places.Because it deals with the flavour of the south during a tumultuous time in history,... Full review

I LOVE LIAM AIKEN! HE IS SO CUTE AND THE BEST PART IS THAT HE'S NOT THAT MUCH OLDER THAN ME! I KNOW PEOPLE THINK I'M PSYCHO FOR THINKING THAT I ACTUALLY HAVE A CHANCE......BUT.....WELL.....I DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... Full review

"The rising place" is a wonderful film.The story of one woman's courage in the south. definitly worth your time in vewing.If "fride Green tomatoes" and "Driving Miss Daisy" are your 'cup of tea' then you should add this one to your... Full review

Along with the period authentic look of Mark Horton's costumes and William J. Blanchard's production design, the aesthetics of "The Rising Place" is simply wonderful. Yet somehow, despite all these different tasks, Rice has made a beautiful, impressive film with genuine warmth and heart. ... Full Review

The cast is uniformly excellent even though Holloman plays the young Millie is if she's yet to develop a second brain cell. She shrugs off her black sheep status and sits inside the backroom of Melvina Pou's (Beth Grant) Cajun diner with the town's other undesirables, including perpetual liar Will Bacon (Mark Webber) and best friend Wilma Watson (Elise Neal). ... Full Review

Writer-producer-director Tom Rice's "The Rising Place" is an ultra-touchy-feely race-relations, civil-rights drama as imagined by theme-park organizers, with every character painted in broad strokes in a story that eagerly tugs at every available heartstring -- and rings false at every turn. ... Full Review

Based on the David Armstrong novel, "The Rising Place" is a deeply felt but flat and unimaginative rendering of a young woman coming of age in the Mississippi Delta as Pearl Harbor looms. ... Full Article

A woman learns a valuable lesson about her family as she and her aunt look back at her troubled past in this independent drama. As Virginia Wilder (Frances Fisher) visits her elderly Aunt Millie (Alice Drummond) for the Christmas holidays,... ... Full Article

The Rising Place is a coming-of-age tale that details one young woman's journey toward self-awareness and tolerance amidst the turmoil of racial injustice and world war, and how the lessons of the past can influence future generations. ... Full Article

PG-13 -By Maria Garcia For movie details, please click here . Emily Hodge (Laurel Holloman) falls in love with a flyboy. When he goes off to war in Europe, Emily discovers she's pregnant. ... Full Article

Sticky sweet sentimentality, clumsy plotting and a rosily myopic view of life in the WWII-era Mississippi Delta undermine this adaptation of an unpublished novel by David Armstrong. ... Full Article