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	Cider House Rules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		When it is discovered that Homer is the only one in the cider house who can read, he is asked by one of the hands to read aloud a set of typewritten rules that are pinned to a post in the bunkroom.
		The film is called "The Cider House Rules." This means that the secondary story of the apple pickers and their relation to rules and the law is taken to be a guiding metaphor for the primary story of Dr. Larch and his relation to law and morality.
		If Irving's story nevertheless treats the rules as "outrageous" and "irrelevant," then the plausibility of the pickers' attitude can be understood only on the basis of the democratic principle that no person or group of persons should ever be required to live by rules that are not made or agreed to by themselves.
	faculty.frostburg.edu /phil/forum/CiderHouse.htm (5374 words)

	The Cider House Rules - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article relates to the novel, The Cider House Rules by John Irving.
		The Cider House Rules (film) is also a 1999 film starring Tobey Maguire and Michael Caine, directed by Lasse Hallström.
		Homer Wells, an unadopted orphan, is the book's central protagonist; Homer grew up in an orphanage directed by Dr. Wilbur Larch.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Cider_House_Rules (471 words)

	DVD Review - The Cider House Rules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		All of these things are happening when the true core of the story is a tale of the love between a father and son, be they blood related or not.
		From the snow covered hills which surround the orphanage to the Maine coast to the apple orchard, "The Cider House Rules" is lushly filmed and a beautiful film to watch.
		Charlize Theron continues to prove that she’s a competent actress with her role in "The Cider House Rules," as does Paul Rudd’s in his part as Wally.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/the_cider_house_rules.shtml (1566 words)

	The New American - Cider House: Rotten to the Core - January 31, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Thus Cider House serves as a secular humanist sermon on the theme of situational ethics, a concept inflicted upon the world by Communist "clergyman" Joseph Fletcher in his 1966 book of the same name.
		The Washington Post, in a moment of uncharacteristic honesty, describes Cider House as "pure pro-choice [sic] agitprop, as it tracks Homer’s conversion to the cause of choice [sic] and posits the heroism of the abortionist." In fact, Homer’s conversion is not that dramatic.
		Cider House was a labor of malignant love for Irving and his associates, who include former NEA head Jane Alexander in the minor role of Nurse Edna.
	www.thenewamerican.com /tna/2000/01-31-2000/vo16no03_cider_house.htm (3001 words)

	Novel theatre: Adam Silverman illuminates The Cider House Rules
		Cider House is the product of Book-It Repertory Theatre, a Seattle-based company run by Jane Jones and Myra Platt, which is dedicated to translating great works of literature to the stage.
		Even better, the complex narrative of Cider House, which covers several decades, is built around a sharply argued debate on a perennially hot topic: the morality of abortion.
		The Cider House Rules focuses on two protagonists: Dr. Wilbur Larch (Colm Meany), who runs a New England orphanage, where he quietly performs illegal abortions, and Homer Wells (Josh Hamilton), the institution's most rejected foundling, who eventually becomes Larch's surrogate son, but comes to oppose the doctor's freethinking ideas.
	lightingdimensions.com /mag/lighting_novel_theatre_adam/index.html (1534 words)

	Guide -- 'Cider House' Rules
		Glowing and marked by both the richest and basest forms of love, The Cider House Rules is the most fulfilling movie in theaters now.
		The beauty of The Cider House Rules is that these characters live - at first on screen and forever in the viewer's imagination.
		The plot for The Cider House Rules is based on a book by John Irving, and the tale is mesmerizing.
	www.thehoya.com /guide/020400/guide6.htm (412 words)

	The Cider House Rules: Cinephiles Movie Review
		The Cider House Rules, directed by Lasse Hallstrom and based on the novel (as well as written for the screen) by John Irving, explores the world of Wilbur Larch (Michael Caine), the director, obstetrician and abortionist of St. Cloud's orphanage.
		With more women visiting the orphanage to have abortions or to abandon their babies than to adopt one of the many children available, The Cider House Rules --set in the early 1940s-- comments on the problems of undesired pregnancies, the need for abortions, and the great responsibility of parenting.
		Most importantly, The Cider House Rules is successful in supporting these arguments by approaching --subtly, yet sensibly-- the dilemmas which envelope the issues.
	www.cinephiles.net /The_Cider_House_Rules/Film-Synopsis.html (257 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Entertainment Guide
		That, too, is the theme of "The Cider House Rules," which celebrates the practical and the compassionate as opposed to the ceremonial and the proper.
		At the same time, there's the brute reality of life in the Cider House, which happens to be – given the racism of America in wartime – entirely populated by African Americans, led by Mr.
		The Cider House Rules (129 minutes) is rated PG-13 for adult content, nudity and one violent death.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/entertainment/movies/reviews/ciderhouseruleshunter.htm (929 words)

	Cider House Rules - Nitrate Online Review
		First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules tells a lumpy story, which may explain why -- despite Irving's ostensible efforts to clarify and condense the plot and his "eccentric" characters -- Lasse Hallstrom's movie version is much like previous films based on Irving novels.
		Set in the 1930s and '40s, The Cider House Rules has a typically Irving-ian sense of scatter: the years sort of drift by, characters are sundry, and themes are vaguely related to each other.
		That The Cider House Rules hardly knows what to do with her is demonstrated when, as soon as Rose's dilemma is revealed and more or less "dealt with," she's evacuated from the text.
	www.nitrateonline.com /1999/rciderhouse.html (1251 words)

	The Cider House Rules
		No longer about the Caine/Maguire (promising son leaving his possessive, but loving father) relationship, "Cider House" becomes a soap opera platform for a pro-choice/pro-life debate eventually favoring the former.
		But, since these rules have never been demonstrated to mean a darn thing to our endearing main character, all the fuss about them at the end doesn't mean much to the viewer.
		Though two other John Irving books have been made into films ("World According to Garp" and "Hotel New Hampshire"), the "Cider House" screenplay is the first to have been penned by him as well.
	www.rossanthony.com /C/cidhouse.shtml (397 words)

	The Cider House Rules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Irving's novel, The Cider House Rules, begins in the 1920s in St. Cloud's orphanage in Maine where Homer Wells is born and spends most of his adolescent years.
		Rose, a boss during the apple harvest, has his own cider house rules, one of which is to expose Homer's lie if he ever mentions what Mr.
		The Cider House Rules was written in 1985, and was recently made into a movie which has been nominated for an Academy Award.
	www.sonic.net /~barny/cider.html (489 words)

	The Cider House Rules
		The Cider House Rules is a grand old-style movie in a more laidback pace.
		Cider House is run by Dr Larch, a man whose increasing jadedness over the number of abandoned babies at the doorstep gives him no qualms in performing abortions for women who request for one.
		When a couple, Wally (Paul Rudd) and Candy come to Cider House for an abortion to be performed on Candy, Homer takes the opportunity to go with them and find work as an apple-picker in Wally's apple orchards.
	www.mrsgiggles.com /movies/cider_house.html (536 words)

	Cider House Rules, The (1999): Michael Caine, Charlize Theron, Tobey Maguire
		Homer is immediately attracted to their glamour and big city ways and so runs away from the orphanage to work on Wally's family orchard, bunking in with the other migrant workers in the cider house of the title, where he learns about life, love and the ugliness of human nature.
		Homer's time in the cider house leads him to appreciate that his surrogate father, against whom he was so keen to rebel, has taught him more about life than he has realised.
		From the early morning mist to the dankness of the cider house, the cinematography envelops you and draws you further into what is already a very moving film.
	www.citizencaine.org /films/cider.shtml (940 words)

	The Cider House Rules \| The Brunching Shuttlecocks
		Every generation a movie comes along that makes us take a hard look at ourselves, makes us feel warm and glad to be alive, makes us fall in love with people we've never met and reminds us why movies are so wonderful.
		The Cider House Rules isn't one of those movies, but it sure wants to be.
		Rule # 6: The Critic wouldn't know a sweet and touching movie if it bit him in the ass.
	www.brunching.com /ciderhouse.html (599 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Cider House Rules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		On this special VHS edition of The Cider House Rules, the film is followed by "The Cider House Rules: The Making of an American Classic," a somewhat presumptuously titled but otherwise engaging 20-minute featurette (also included on the DVD) comprising film clips and on-screen interview segments with the film's primary cast and director Lasse Hallström.
		Set during World War II, CIDER HOUSE is the story of a child named Homer(Tobey Maguire) raised in a Maine orphanage by stubborn but likeable Dr. Larch (Michael Caine), who trains Homer in medical arts.
		CIDER HOUSE RULES was the first film with Michael Caine that I was able to catch at the movies in more than ten years.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000065K5S (1102 words)

	The Cider House Rules
		What makes the 10 commandments different (ISTM) from cider house rules is that as much as the orchard owner is kind to the migrants, there is still no real bond between them.
		The rules the owner seeks to impose are impersonal and more concerned with the owner's liability than the workers well being.
		In "The Cider House Rules" the laborers laugh at the rules that are posted in the bunkhouse (when someone who can read finally reads the rules for them); they have broken every one and will continue to do so.
	www.textweek.com /movies/cider_house_rules.htm (481 words)

	AboutFilm.Com - The Cider House Rules (1999)
		The lifelong resident of a geographically isolated orphanage in St. Clouds, Maine (itself tucked away in one corner of the nation), he is surrounded by sorrow.
		The strangest thing about The Cider House Rules is the way that it frames this profoundly disturbing world in love and hope and light, allowing the overwhelming sadness to coexist with a genuine sense of familial solidarity and affection within the walls of the orphanage.
		When he takes up residence in the Cider House, a grungy shack of a barracks that serves as living quarters for the all-fl crew, the lead man, Mr.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/c/ciderhouserules.htm (1835 words)

	Movie Review -- Cider House Rules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Cider House Rules' theme of making your own decisions is valid and develops quite well through the course of the story.
		There's some nice symbolism in the eponymous rules of the cider house which the migrant workers can't even read-only Rose is interested in seeking them out and when they are revealed the written rules, handed down, are ludicrous, condescending and already broken.
		Homer's decision to leave despite his mentor's wishes is one of those new rules, and his love affair with Candy, flying in the face of her promise to Wally is another new rule, and Homer fully grasps the consequences of making your own decisions only at the end.
	www.theshrubbery.com /0400/movie4.html (875 words)

	The Cider House Rules
		Before leaving for war, Wally finds Homer a new job at a cider house, where he will be the only white employee among migrant fls.
		Rose, the boss of the cider house, are exemplary.
		Though not formulaic, The Cider House Rules is in the mode of old-fashioned crowd-pleasers, passionate tales of self-discovery set against a historical backdrop.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/ciderhouserules.htm (695 words)

	Cider house rules: No more raw cider sales starting in 2006 - 2005-07-25
		Cider pressed from this year's apple crop will be the last that can be legally sold in New York state without being treated to kill E. coli and other microorganisms.
		Cider made for production of hard cider or vinegar is exempt from the treatment requirement.
		At that time, the federal Food and Drug Administration imposed a rule that all apple juice and cider sold wholesale must be treated for microorganisms.
	www.bizjournals.com /albany/stories/2005/07/25/story6.html (741 words)

	"The Cider House Rules" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		The rules are obviously useless to everyone (most are even illiterate), though those in the bunkhouse are expected to abide by them.
		I was touched by the sympathetic depiction of the kids in the orphanage, and pleased when Homer went to live in the Cider House, breaking down the division by color.
		This set of rules which no one can read except Homer appear to be stupid and not of any use to any of the people living and working at the orchard.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/reviews/theciderhouserules.html (1643 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Entertainment Guide
		n "The Cider House Rules," a sensitive but not overly sentimental adaptation of John Irving's lengthy 1985 novel of moral ambiguity from Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom and screenwriter Irving, the good guy doesn't wear a white cowboy hat but a white lab coat.
		Homer Wells (the wonderfully laconic Tobey Maguire) is Larch's protege, a young man whose failure to be adopted has left him in the reluctant roles of the son Larch never had and an obstetrician-in-training.
		What's wonderful about this "Cider" is not just its cast of impeccable actors – it also features singer Erykah Badu as Mr.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/entertainment/movies/reviews/ciderhouserulesosullivan.htm (389 words)

	The Cider House Rules
		Occasionally scores like The Cider House Rules or A Thousand Acres and the like can suffer due to their lack of variety, but if you are feeling on the melancholy-side then these same scores are perfect.
		With great joy, I'm delighted to say that The Cider House Rules ranks among the two mentioned above as a third installment in her trilogy of phenomenal large-scale scores in this genre of film.
		All artwork from The Cider House Rules is exclusive property of Sony Classical Records (c) 1999.
	www.tracksounds.com /reviews/cider.htm (592 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "The Cider House Rules" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Among the old and the young, spontaneous love and passion are allowed for, as well as mistakes: "The Cider House Rules" is unabashedly pro-choice, and unapologetic when the choice is abortion, acknowledging with a rare flintiness that for a woman, pregnancy does not always amount to a gift.
		Set in the early 1940s, "The Cider House Rules" -- which John Irving adapted beautifully from his own novel -- is a smart, sensitive exploration of the same territory mined in the sentimental Frank Capra favorite "It's a Wonderful Life": Is the safe and familiar home territory preferable to the big wide world?
		In that respect, "The Cider House Rules" is pro-life in the only genuine sense of the term.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2000/01/25/cider_house (1441 words)

	Cider House Rules promotes abortion in a script that's rotten to the core. Celebrities, experts, speakers and ...
		"The Cider House Rules," based on John Irving's acclaimed novel of the same name, is set in a New England orphanage run by the maverick Dr. Wilbur Larch (Michael Caine).
		The movie strives to dramatize the gulf between the ideal, represented by the posted rules, and the real which each person, like Homer, must discover on his or her own.
		The titular list of "dos and don'ts" in "The Cider House Rules," in the logic of the movie, can be seen to stand for the moral laws that modern men find so oppressive.
	www.prolife.com /CiderHouseRules.html (1229 words)

	The Cider House Rules - a Movie Review of The Phantom Tollbooth
		Thankfully, Lesse Hallstrom changes all that; from the outset and from the first spoken word, The Cider House Rules is an engrossing and beautiful picture that has its fair share of lump in the throat moments.
		The Cider House Rules is a picture that does not rely on soul-searching speeches to make its point, instead painting in subtle gestures and repeated couplets-just try listening to the words Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England without feeling teary.
		The Cider House Rules is a rich, slow-building film that never stops to moralize or wag its finger at the footfalls of the characters; instead, it allows them to breathe and follow their individual quirks and idiosyncrasies.
	www.tollbooth.org /2000/movies/ciderhouse.html (780 words)

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