The Rising Place

Name: The Rising Place
Genre: Drama
Released: November 8, 2002
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 32

2002

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Flatland Pictures | Release Date: November 8, 2002 | PG-13

Summary: Set in the Mississippi Delta in the 1940's, The Rising Place is a delicate look at a young woman's passionate quest for self awareness and acceptance in a time of social injustice and world war. (Flatland Pictures)

Director: Tom Rice

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 93 min

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David Sterritt

This low-key drama is always warm and mellow, although it doesn't build much of an emotional charge. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

As earnest as its artless young characters, Tom Rice's intermittently affecting debut walks a well-trod path without finding anything very new. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

This cliché-filled labor of love is staffed with some fine performers - Jennifer Holliday sings at a juke joint and Frances Sternhagen plays an older version of Emily's sister. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

Deeply felt but flat and unimaginative. Read full review

Nat Johnson

Broadway dreamgirl Jennifer Holliday's musical interludes occasionally relieve this mélange of recycled social morality lessons. Read full review

Scott Foundas

An 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. Read full review

Stephen Holden

This misty-eyed Southern nostalgia piece, in treading the line between sappy and sanguine, winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand. Read full review

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