Rambling Rose

When Rose, an alluring young woman played by Laura Dern, moves in with a Southern family to care for their children, their lives are changed forever. Rose relates to everyone she meets in the only way she knows how - with an innocent, but highly charged sexuality she cannot restrain. Robert Duvall co-stars as "Daddy," a man whose traditional values could never prepare him for the temptations of Rose. Diane Ladd - Dern's real-life mother - plays "Mother", who offers Rose protection and love despite the scandal the girl creates in their small town. Lukas Haas is the teenager who will always remember Rose as both a provocative fantasy and a profound mystery. Special Features include: Scene-by-scene commentary by director Martha Coolidge; Interview with the director; Deleted scenes; Alternate ending. Laura Dern, Robert Duvall, Dianne Ladd, Lukas Haas

This overrated period comic-drama, set in Georgia in the 1930s, featured the first mother-daughter team to be nominated for acting Oscars in the same year. Laura Dern plays a free-wheeling young woman who is taken in as a domestic by an upper-class family, headed by Robert Duvall and Diane Ladd (Dern's real-life mother). Rose, who tends to let her sexual urges get the best of her, scandalizes everyone in three counties (including Duvall and Lukas Haas, who plays his son) with her willing spirit. Do those kind of loose morals warrant court-ordered sterilization? Or does this young woman just need a guiding hand? While many fell for this cornpone shtick, directed by Martha Coolidge, it's a hard movie to cozy up to because Rose is such a caricature and the rest of the characters (with the exception of the always exceptional Duvall) are such sticks. --Marshall Fine