Review of The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) by Brian W — 17 Mar 2007
This is a pretty decent movie with a pretty decent cast.
Daniel Day-Lewis, Camilla Belle and Catherine Keener have the main parts with smaller parts from Paul Dano, Jena Malone and Beau Bridges.
Day-Lewis is a single father living a sort of free-thinkjing commune lifestyle with his 16 year old daughter (Camilla Belle) on an island off the coast of Washington in 1986. The commune has been abandoned and the two live alone, Belle's character's mother having left the family approx. 10 years poior.
Day-Lewis is terminally sick (fom what is never mentioned) and one day he goes to the mainland to see a woman (Keener) he's been seeing for 4 months. He convinces her to bring her two boys (among them Paul Dano) and come and live with him on the island.
When she arrives with her family, Belle's character is under the impression it's for a visit. She has trouble adjusting when she founds out it might be a permanent thing.
Malone plays a friends of the boys and Bridges is a land developer who is building a neighborhood full of houses on the island.
As Belle struggles with her budding sexuality, and Day-Lewis struggles against the impending change the development will bring, both strugle with his illness and try to make the best of things.
Jason Lee also has a bit part.
The acting is well done by most everyone and this is definitely worth a look if you're familiar with Day-Lewis' work or you saw Bell in The Chumscrubber, Dano in a number of his films or Kenner in Friends with Money.
This review of The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) was written by Brian W on 17 Mar 2007.
The Ballad of Jack and Rose has generally received positive reviews.
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