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	NewBeats.com: The Ballad of Jack and Rose
		Director Rebecca Miller's The Ballad of Jack and Rose is the story of a dying man and his daughter living a peaceful existence on an island off the East Coast of the United States (actually the lovely and scenic Prince Edward Island).
		Jack and Rose live in near isolation on land that was once a thriving commune.
		One day Jack decides a change is in order and asks his girlfriend Kathleen (Catherine Keener) and her two sons to move in with him and Rose.
	www.newbeats.com /balladjackrose.html (410 words)

	The Ballad of Jack and Rose
		Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis, Gangs of New York, The Boxer) and his daughter Rose (Camilla Belle, Back to the Secret Garden, The Invisible Circus) live on an old hippie commune on an island somewhere off the east coast of America.
		Jack is also sick, and realizing that life for he and Rose is about to change profoundly.
		Jack knows he is dying, and is trying to reconcile all aspects of his life.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/ballad_jack_rose.html (446 words)

	Movies into Film
		Although she’s 16, Rose insists that Jack tell her bedtime stories, and he does so, in one hypnotic tale about an ox that knocks at the door to a young maiden’s house, and the maiden’s efforts to pull the ox through an entrance not designed to accommodate such an outsized visitor.
		Jack, dying from an unnamed illness (though it appears to be a form of heart disease), invites his lady friend of four months to stay indefinitely at the rustic, earth house that he and Rose have for so long occupied in solitude.
		The Ballad of Jack and Rose opened on April 1 in Seattle at the Uptown Cinema, the Alderwood 16, and the Landmark Metro.
	www.moviesintofilm.com /balladofjackandrose.htm (982 words)

	'The Ballad of Jack and Rose' - MOVIE REVIEW - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive.com
		It is one of the deft, understated accomplishments of Miller's film that when we do meet Jack and Rose, they are so enamored of each other in a playful, bantering way, we can't immediately tell if their relationship is romantic or familial.
		Jack the father is an unrepentant, charismatic counter-culturalist who's aging just like his house, someone who retains his penchant for hand-rolled cigarettes and his passion for environmental concerns even though his fellow communards have abandoned him.
		When Jack rails against the world's ecological callousness by saying "we do whatever we want and turn a blind eye to the consequences," he is unknowingly commenting on his own emotional obtuseness as well.
	www.calendarlive.com /cl-et-ballad25mar25,2,6661241.story (1005 words)

	The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005): Daniel Day-Lewis, Catherine Keener, Camilla Belle, Paul Dano - PopMatters Film ...
		Catherine Keener and Daniel Day-Lewis in The Ballad of Jack and Rose
		At Jack's invitation, the new family unit arrives on Jack and Rose's doorstep, throwing all their previous 18 years of unhurried sublimity into a deep hole of desperation and transformation.
		Rose fights back with girlish rage and ferocity, enduring passionless sex with Thaddius, using her dad's own memories against him (in the form of grainy, happy home movies of the commune days).
	popmatters.com /film/reviews/b/ballad-of-jack-and-rose.shtml (1168 words)

	Amazon.com: The Ballad of Jack and Rose: DVD: Camilla Belle,Daniel Day-Lewis,Catherine Keener,Ryan McDonald (II),Paul ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Rose is a beautiful young girl, Jack's daughter, protected from the harsh realities of the outside world until a developer threatens their blissful existence on an island in the Atlantic off the coast of Canada, and Jack's girlfriend and her ne'er do well drug addict son move in, ostensibly to take care of Jack.
		Jack has kept Rose isolated from the outside world for sixteen years, but as his health takes a drastic fall he feels she may need a woman in her life, someone to take care of her after his death.
		Rose begins to explore her sexuality in an attempt to punish her father for choosing another woman over her and as the final frames roll in we are brought to see the darker side of attachment.
	www.amazon.com /Ballad-Jack-Rose-Camilla-Belle/dp/B0009VRHNI (2890 words)

	The Ballad of Jack and Rose: A Mediocre Experience
		Despite the roaring sense of isolation, Rose could not be happier inhabiting her better years side by side with only her father -- primarily because Jack has successfully shielded Rose from the exterior worldâ€™s harsh reality of sex, lies and capitalism.
		This sets off Jackâ€™s invitation to his girlfriend, Kathleen (Catherine Keener), and her two sons, Rodney (Ryan McDonald) and Thadius (Paul Dano), to come and live in Jack and Roseâ€™s home on the commune.
		Therefore, Jack is often reduced to being part of the scenery where his performance is relegated to background pantomimes and quips, and too-often forgettable actions.
	www.socal.com /articles/1542-68.html (758 words)

	Oldboy + The Ballad of Jack and Rose
		Rebecca Miller's The Ballad of Jack and Rose is another film revolving around fathers and daughters and an old boy who discovers at the end of his life that his saving grace might be that his daughter is made to forget that he ever existed.
		Jack lives on an island off the east coast of the United States with his daughter Rose (Camilla Belle), a wild child coming to flower in isolation with her father until he, suffering from an ailing heart, invites his girlfriend Kathleen (Catherine Keener) and her two boys to live with them.
		With much made of gardens and serpents loosed, The Ballad of Jack and Rose is suffocatingly pretentious, stuffed to the rafters with Miller's playwright father Arthur's gravid, stilted ghost, all phantoms of the promise of America swallowed whole by the death of idealism that maturity, by every right, should bring.
	filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/oldboyballad.htm (940 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2004)
		In the 1960s, Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) was a political radical and environmental activist who organized a self-sustaining commune on a small island off the East Coast as an alternative to what he saw as an ugly and destructive way of life.
		Jack has an on-and-off relationship with Kathleen (Catherine Keener), a divorced mother of two teenage boys who lives on the mainland, and one day to Rose's great surprise, Jack announces that Kathleen and her boys will be moving in with them.
		The Ballad of Jack & Rose was written and directed by Rebecca Miller, whose husband is leading man Daniel Day-Lewis and whose father was playwright Arthur Miller.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=122425 (517 words)

	Ballad of Jack and Rose, The (2005): Reviews
		If one enjoyed manufacturing symbols as much as Miller, one might speculate that Rose is Rebecca Miller, aching to be her own artist, and Jack is Arthur.
		Both "The Ballad of Jack and Rose"(not counting the epilogue) and "The Amityville Horror" end in the same way, which is a bizarre fluke, but then you think about the lives of Jack and Rose, and there's the realization that their house is every bit as haunted.
		In "The Ballad of Jack and Rose", "her novel", Miller seems to have a thing for Bob Dylan.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/balladofjackandrose (1407 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: The Ballad of Jack and Rose
		Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis), a utopian environmentalist disgusted by the earth-ravaging "progress" of modern society, lives with his teenage daughter Rose (the sweet Camilla Belle) in an abandoned commune he built during the 1960s on an island off the U.S.'s East Coast.
		Sheltered from everyday civilization, Jack and Rose are like a parent/progeny version of Adam and Eve, attempting to continue Jack's youthful dream of "reinventing" society by promoting an intimate relationship with nature and a spirit of selfless togetherness.
		Jack, however, is dying, and Rose—who has been kept ignorant of the real world, or of the coming puberty that will awaken heretofore unstirred desires—is suicidal at the thought of being left alone in the world, and thus clings to her beloved dad by disquietingly emulating his flannel fashion and hairstyle.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1473 (373 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Ballad of Jack and Rose (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a fierce idealist who occasionally visits the other side of the island to fire shotgun blasts over the heads of workers building a housing development.
		Having possibly fantasized herself as her father's lover, Rose reacts with anger to the newcomers and determines in revenge to lose her virginity as soon as possible.
		The movie has a sly scene where Jack and Rose visit one of the model homes, which to Jack is an abomination and to Rose a dream.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050331/REVIEWS/50310003/1023 (929 words)

	AboutFilm.com - The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
		Jack and Rose, whom Jack has home schooled since the age of eleven, have little contact with the outside world.
		Jack is loaded, you see, which does tend to take some stress out of running a self-sufficient commune.
		Jack's own naïveté must end as he confronts the possibility that he has permanently ruined his daughter, and that his feud with Marty may have as much to do with his own stubborn intransigence as it does with the inherent evils of suburban tract housing.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/b/balladofjackandrose.htm (871 words)

	Ballad of Jack and Rose
		Jack spends a lot of time trying to stop the building of luxury homes by developer Marty Rance (Beau Bridges), on property bordering his land.
		The commune failed after a few years and Rose’s mother left when she was three.
		Jack must let go of the idea of a society of communal cooperation where, oddly, he is not willing to compromise.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /rmc/B_2005/ballad_jack_rose.htm (399 words)

	The Ballad of Jack and Rose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In The Ballad of Jack and Rose, the two lead characters share the same first names of the roles played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic.
		Rose, in particular, reacts badly to the intruders, as she's used to having her father to herself.
		Daniel Day-Lewis as Jack Slavin and Camilla Belle as Rose Slavin in low-budget drama The Ballad of Jack and Rose.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/0415Ballad15.html (269 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'The Ballad of Jack and Rose'
		That said, Jack's prediction that "there's going to be nothing left of this country but suburbs and ghettos" seems a little too early for 1986.
		Rose is such a portrait of clear-eyed, brave innocence that she seems almost clean enough to purify even incest.
		The Ballad of Jack and Rose (R; 111 min.), directed and written by Rebecca Miller, photographed by Ellen Kuras and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Catherine Keener and Camilla Belle, opens Friday at selected theaters.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/03.30.05/ballad-0513.html (596 words)

	Don't Move/Ballad of Jack and Rose
		The Ballad of Jack and Rose is far less eventful than Castellitto's turbulent Don't Move.
		Ballad of Jack and Rose is more a mood piece than a chronicle of events and while the mood is strong enough to make you feel stuck on that island, it just sort of fizzles out.
		Yet strong as Rose is in the movie, she seems to exist as a foil for Jack.
	www.cinescene.com /knipp/ballad.htm (1132 words)

	'The Ballad of Jack and Rose' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Rose is disturbed by the fact that he is ill. She will soon be even more disturbed by the fact that his girlfriend and her two teenage sons are coming to live with them.
		But for all the present twists and past revelations in its storytelling, "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" is more about characters than narrative, as we might expect from the presence of Day-Lewis, an actor famously dedicated to unique characterizations.
		Rose, not Jack, is the film's main and most strangely interesting character.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05112/492155.stm (583 words)

	SF Station: The Ballad of Jack and Rose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Jack is sick (it's more than a bit ironic that Jack's sickness coincides with Sarah's nascent womanhood and curiosity about the outside world).
		While Jack is clearly upset by Rose's response and the resultant estrangement between the two, he seems slow to recognize why this is happening.
		While The Ballad of Jack and Rose is in many respects a fairy tale, Miller makes a mistake in tacking on a contrived, obligatory happy ending that nearly eradicates all positive feelings I have towards the film.
	www.sfstation.com /the-ballad-of-jack-and-rose-a1176 (459 words)

	IGN: The Ballad of Jack and Rose Review
		Rose has grown up knowing little more than her own father's life and ways, as he has largely kept her sheltered from any outside influence.
		Jack is sick and the control he's always had of his life is quickly slipping away.
		The performances alone make the film compelling, and I found myself pretty intrigued by the simplistic existence Jack and Rose live, particularly in its stark contrast to the hustle bustle life I now know in LA. Miller is a strong director and her hard work shows through in this touching film.
	movies.ign.com /articles/598/598004p1.html (754 words)

	The Ballad of Jack and Rose - ComingSoon.net Movie Reviews
		It's 1986, and Jack (Daniel Day Lewis) is a hippie living alone with his teen daughter Rose (Camilla Belle) on an island commune away from the rest of the world.
		With The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Rebecca Miller's skills as a screenwriter and filmmaker take a giant leap forward from the digitally shot Personal Velocity, since it allows her to tell a more complex tale using more characters.
		Her conflict with Rose is a classic case of Elektra complex, and her motivations for moving in with them always seem a bit questionable.
	comingsoon.net /news/reviewsnews.php?id=8926 (1059 words)

	MovieComment » Blog Archive » The Ballad of Jack and Rose (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		One of the most controversial films I saw last year was The Ballad of Jack and Rose, where Daniel Day-Lewis plays an environmentalist who is raising his only daughter Rose (Camilla Belle) as best he can.
		Jack starts to realize that the life he has chosen may have damaged Rose and prevented her from having a normal life.
		Due to Jack’s health, he knows he does not have much time and so he persuades a woman he knows to move onto the island with him and Rose.
	www.moviecomment.com.cob-web.org:8888 /28/ballad-of-jack-and-rose (267 words)

	The Ballad of Jack and Rose Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Worried that caring for him will be too much for his sheltered daughter, Jack invites his girlfriend Kathleen (Catherine Keener) and her two teenaged boys to live on the commune.
		At one point, Jack describes Rose's absent mother as "inscrutable and selfish." The same could be said of Rose, who's a bit of a dewy-faced cipher.
		It may be that Rose is the type of introverted character whose loss of innocence is better suited to the page than the screen.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=140463 (823 words)

	The American Spectator
		Published 3/30/2005 12:02:02 AM Rebecca Miller's 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.
		Rose tells him, and seems to mean it, that when he dies she'll kill herself.
		There is one outstanding scene in the film, which comes as Jack and Rose pay a visit to the developer, Marty Rance, whom he has lately threatened to kill.
	www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=7960 (924 words)

	The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) - MovieWeb
		Since the breakup of the commune, Jack has sheltered Rose completely from the influences of the outside world, but now his fatal illness and Rose's emerging womanhood pose troubling questions about the days ahead.
		A man who has lived a life motivated by environmentalism, Jack now rages at those who do not share his aesthetic, like developer Marty Rance (Beau Bridges), who is building a housing tract on the edge of his property.
		When Jack invites his girlfriend Kathleen (Catherine Keener) and her sons Rodney (Ryan McDonald) and Thaddius (Paul Dano) to live with them, Rose feels betrayed and the situation quickly becomes precarious.
	www.movieweb.com /movies/film/26/2626/summary.php (237 words)

	The Ballad of Jack and Rose
		On a secluded island commune in the Pacific Northwest, Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a single father raising his teenage daughter Rose (Camilla Belle).
		Deeply embedded tensions slowly rise to the surface as Rose experiences, for the first time, the power of her sexuality.
		And the location for The Ballad of Jack and Rose is so crucial to the story, it is in a sense the body of the story, inside of which the characters play out the internal struggle, the struggle of life and death.
	www.movienet.com /balladofjackandrose.html (572 words)

	The Ballad of Jack & Rose \| movies : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The filmmaker sets her dyad in a patch of unspoiled country on an unnamed East Coast island, the remains of a commune in which Jack is now the sole caretaker of an all-but-dead ideal; a slick land developer (Beau Bridges) has already begun building on the edge of Jack's property.
		Indeed, Jack is dying too, of a bad heart, and he's angry about the world he cannot put in order; he also feels helpless about the beloved daughter who will soon be parentless.
		Rose's welfare is as much a consideration as his own domestic companionship when Jack invites Kathleen (Catherine Keener, conveying a whole, complex woman in just a few scenes), his casual girlfriend on the mainland, and her two sons (Ryan McDonald and Paul Dano) to move in.
	www.ew.com /ew/article/review/movie/0,6115,1040802_1_0_,00.html (590 words)

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