The Ballad of Jack and Rose

2005

Action / Drama

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 61% · 112 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 61% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 12627 12.6K

runaway commune arson incest illness environmentalism

Plot summary

Jack Slavin is an environmentalist with a heart condition who lives with his daughter, Rose, on an isolated island. While Jack fights against developers who wish to build in the area, he also craves more contact with other people. When he invites his girlfriend, Kathleen, and her sons, Rodney and Thaddius, to move in, Rose is upset. The complicated family dynamics makes things difficult for everyone in the house.

Director

Rebecca Miller Photo
Rebecca Miller

Top cast

Jena Malone Photo
Jena Malone as Red Berry
Paul Dano Photo
Paul Dano as Thaddius
Beau Bridges Photo
Beau Bridges as Marty Rance
Camilla Belle Photo
Camilla Belle as Rose Slavin
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 51 min
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1.86 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   ar   de   pt   ru   es   th  
23.976 fps
1 hr 51 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Groverdox 6 / 10

Wandering and tiresome

Rose lives all alone on an island with her ailing hippie father. She worships him and has incestuous feelings for him. He is still clinging to the dream that the island will remain a paradise away from the rigours of the modern world. However property developers are threatening to move in.It is refreshing to see a story of incest told from a female's perspective. However Rose remains unknowable throughout most of the movie - but then, in essence, so do the other characters, with vague and baffling dialogue. In the second half there are sudden developments that seem too convenient to do away with characters who leave the movie spread far too thin across the remaining characters and remaining runtime. The ending also seemed a bit too neat and tidy for the challenging issues the movie has raised.
Reviewed by clg121 8 / 10

Great movie - Loved the setting!

Loved the movie. The beautiful story went well with the picturesque setting in our smallest Canadian province on the east coast, Prince Edward Island, where the movie was filmed. Daniel Day Lewis was great. I wonder, did he have to lose a lot of weight to play the part? Ryan MacDonald did an excellent job and gave the movie some comedic relief. It brought back memories of the good old commune days! Maybe a return to those days might do our world some good. Beau Bridges gave a good performance as well but the sweet innocence of Rose was really the essence of the movie. You could feel the love connection between her and her father, be it father/daughter love or the love felt between lovers.
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