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The Rising Place
Directed by
Tom Rice
PG-13
2001
1h 33m
Drama
6.4
13%
80%
6.7
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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.
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Cast of The Rising Place
Laurel Holloman
Emily Hodge
Elise Neal
Wilma Watson
Mark Webber
Will Bacon
Frances Fisher
Virginia Wilder
Billy Campbell
Streete Wilder
Tess Harper
Rebecca Hodge
Jennifer Holliday
Sadie
S. Epatha Merkerson
Lessie Watson
Liam Aiken
Emmett Wilder
Alice Drummond
Aunt Millie
Gary Cole
Avery Hodge
Jackson Walker
Harry C. Devening
Mason Gamble
Franklin Pou - age 12
Nate Bynum
Brother Isaac
Jackie Bateman
Emily Hodge - age 10
Courtney Campbell
Wilma Watson - age 10
Janie Story
Young Ruth - age 8
Paul Davis
Franklin Pou - age 8
Beth Grant
Melvina Pou
Tom Rice
Director / Writer
The Rising Place Ratings & Reviews
FilmJerk.com
Edward Havens
A solid cast, assured direction and complete lack of modern day irony.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
It is one more celluloid testimonial to the cruelties experienced by Southern blacks as distilled through a Caucasian perspective.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Looks awfully like one long tourist spot for a Mississippi that may never have existed outside of a scriptwriter's imagination.
Los Angeles Daily News
Glenn Whipp
Rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them.
E! Online
E! Staff
Never rises above its own unleavened blandness.
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
A not-so-Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood with a hefty helping of Re-Fried Green Tomatoes.
Spirituality & Practice
Mary Ann Brussat
Salutes an interracial friendship between two Southern women and the ways in which enthusiasm can be a life-saving gift in tough times.
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Sticky sweet sentimentality, clumsy plotting and a rosily myopic view of life in the WWII-era Mississippi Delta undermine this adaptation.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
This misty-eyed Southern nostalgia piece, in treading the line between sappy and sanguine, winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Rice is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any edge or personality to The Rising Place that would set it apart from other Deep South stories.
L.A. Weekly
Mark Olsen
However sincere it may be, The Rising Place never quite justifies its own existence.
Village Voice
Nat Johnson
Yet another weepy Southern bore-athon.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
The overall feel is not unlike watching a glorified episode of "7th Heaven."
Film Journal International
Maria Garcia
[Creates] the worst kind of mythologizing, the kind that sacrifices real heroism and abject suffering for melodrama.
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