The Rising Place with Laurel Holloman: DVD Cover

    The Rising Place Director: Tom Rice Cast: Laurel Holloman, Elise Neal, Mark Webber, Liam Aiken

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    • DVD Release Date: 10/28/2003
    • Original Release: 2002
    • Rating: Rated PG13
    • Sales Rank: 66,543

    Viewer Rating: (4 ratings)

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    Features

    Deleted scenes; Alternate ending; Out-takes; Jennifer Holliday music video

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Open [2:45]
    2. Aunt Millie's Visit [2:29]
    3. Letters and Pictures Found [6:28]
    4. Take Millie to Town [1:00]
    5. Back to the Letters [6:19]
    6. Young Millie Is Snubbed [6:45]
    7. Fishing...Talking [1:18]
    8. Will Gets Beat Up [4:35]
    9. What if He Don't Show? [3:27]
    10. Drive to Base [4:59]
    11. Returned Letters [:59]
    12. Millie's Not Well [:58]
    13. I'm Going to the Christmas Dance [2:32]
    14. The Dance [3:30]
    15. Gone to War [1:46]
    16. Having the Baby [1:43]
    17. I Won't Forget You [7:09]
    18. Eddie Comes Back [3:59]
    19. Starting the Movement [4:45]
    20. Trouble for Wilma [8:20]
    21. New Home [3:29]
    22. Goodbye [6:17]
    23. Credits [3:56]

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    Editorial Reviews

    A woman learns a valuable lesson about her family as she and her aunt look back at her troubled past in this independent drama. As Virginia Wilder (Frances Fisher) visits her elderly Aunt Millie (Alice Drummond) for the Christmas holidays, she discovers a number of letters she received during the 1940s, and gains a new and clearer picture of Millie's life when she was younger. Teenaged Emily (Laurel Holloman) falls in love with a soldier who soon ships out to fight in World War II, but not before she discovers herself pregnant. When the soldier refuses to marry her, Emily is left to have the baby on her own, and soon she discovers herself an outcast in the small Southern town where she was born. While Emily's father (Gary Cole) turns his back on her, her mother (Tess Harper) remains supportive, and Emily soon becomes close friends with two other people who haven't been welcomed by the community, a strong-willed black woman named Wilma Watson (Elise Neal) and Will Bacon (Mark Webber), a well-meaning young man with a bad habit of bending the truth. As Emily's new friends stand by her, Emily in turn stands up for them as Wilma and other members of the town's African-American community begin standing up for their rights as citizens. The first feature film from writer and director Tom Rice, The Rising Place also features Jennifer Holliday and Frances Sternhagen. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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    Rising Placeby Anonymous

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    July 28, 2004: I rented this movie on the recommendation of a friend and it was a most heartwarming story. A must-see and don't forget the tissues ... you'll need them ! Great characters interwoven into a wonderful WW II era story of bygone times when society had strick 'rules'. My, how times have changed . . . Rent this one -- you won't be disappointed !

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    December 31, 2003: This movie was one of the best i have ever seen. It was sad, happy, funny,and fun. The story of 3 teens trying to fit in and fight for their rights. Buy this movie it is one of the best i have every seen.


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