The Rising Place
The Rising Place

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- 64/100 based on 204 votes
  • Released: 2001
  • Runtime: 93 mins
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  • Studio: Flatland Pictures
  • Genres: Drama

Set against the picturesque landscape of the Mississippi Delta in the 1940's, "The Rising Place" follows the close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war. When Virginia visits her Aunt Millie at Christmas, she discovers a stack of handwritten letters over half a century old, and unlocks the story of her aunt's youthful days as a young woman living in Hamilton... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Rising Place:

Laurel Holloman
Elise Neal
Mark Webber
Frances Fisher
Billy Campbell
Tess Harper

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Set against the picturesque landscape of the Mississippi Delta in the 1940's, "The Rising Place" follows the close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war. When Virginia visits her Aunt Millie at Christmas, she discovers a stack of handwritten letters over half a century old, and unlocks the story of her aunt's youthful days as a young woman living in Hamilton, Mississippi, during the second World War. Beautifully shot sequences episodically shift back and forth from the past to the present. In a time when a woman's place was in the home, young Emily ventures out and falls in love with a young soldier, eventually carrying his baby out of wedlock. With the support of her best friend Wilma Watson and their draft-dodging companion Will Bacon, Emily is able to stand by her convictions in a household dominated by the standards of a salt-of-the-earth father and an unconditionally loving mother.

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Newsday - 9/10 by Jan StuartIt is one more celluloid testimonial to the cruelties experienced by Southern blacks as distilled through a Caucasian perspective.
FilmJerk.com - 6/10 by Edward HavensA solid cast, assured direction and complete lack of modern day irony.
L.A. Weekly - 5/10 by Mark OlsenAs a first-time filmmaker who juggles such duties as writing, directing, producing, even playing piano solos on the soundtrack, Rice is in over his head.
Spirituality and Practice - 4/10 by Frederic and Mary Ann BrussatSalutes an interracial friendship between two Southern women and the ways in which enthusiasm can be a life-saving gift in tough times.
New York Times - 4/10 by Stephen HoldenThis misty-eyed Southern nostalgia piece, in treading the line between sappy and sanguine, winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand.
Film Journal International - 4/10 by Maria Garcia[Creates] the worst kind of mythologizing, the kind that sacrifices real heroism and abject suffering for melodrama.
User Review - 4/10 by Lee MAn ultra-touchy-feely race-relations, civil-rights drama as imagined by theme-park organizers, with every character painted in broad strokes in a story that eagerly tugs at every available heartstring -- and rings false at every turn.

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