The read
Critics rate it 35 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 81% of the 1,964 1990s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
In the Deep South of the 1930s, Rose is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Her appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and she knows it. She can't help herself from getting into trouble with men.
Ratings
IMDb6.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 35 points higher than audiences do.
83 audience votes
Key crew
- Calder WillinghamScreenplay
- Martha CoolidgeDirector
- Elmer BernsteinOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Laura DernRose
- Robert DuvallMr. Hillyer
- Diane LaddMrs. Hillyer
- Lukas HaasWillcox "Buddy" Hillyer
- John HeardOlder Willcox "Buddy" Hillyer
- Kevin ConwayDr. Martinson
- Robert John BurkeDave Wilkie
- Lisa JakubFrances "Dolly" Hillyer
- Evan LockwoodWarren "Waski" Hillyer
- Matthew SutherlandBilly
- D. Anthony PenderFoster
- David E. ScarboroughHorton
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Themes
seductiongeorgiahost familygreat depressioncoming of ageyoung womantroubled teenpromiscuous womandepression erafirst lovesexual awakeningtold in flashback