Rose Hill (1997)
Four orphan boys running from the law in New York stumble upon a baby in a carriage. They decide to head west and take the baby which they name Mary Rose with them. Eventually they set up a ranch which they name Rose Hill. Mary Rose grows up to be a beautiful woman and gets involved with a man who kills one of her brothers. Her brothers then explain to her that they found her in New York and she returns to find her real family. During this time Rose Hill is falling apart since her oldest brother has fallen ill and her other two brothers have gone their separate ways.
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When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
The acting in this movie is really good.
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
If you have read the book then stay away from this movie. It is so much a betrayal of the characters that I can not bear to ever wish for another of Julie Garwood's books to ever be made into a movie if she could approve of this interpretation.The best thing that they did was not give it the book's title (gave them one point for that) so that people can maybe not associate the two.There was no need to make the girl so self centered, to kill her brother in order for her to go back to the city, where they all met and decided to become a family instead of a gang, to be reunited with her birth family. If I had seen this movie first then I would never have wasted my time reading all five of the stories.
With no sex, violence or strong language, the movie features handsome people who care about each other creating strong family ties deeper than blood. The street smart kids who leave town with a swaddling baby live in a color-blind world.In a fairy tale story set during the taming of the west, the family survives and eventually prospers while maintaining their love for each other and their community. Self-reliance is rewarded, while theft meets with death - crisp values in an amoral world. Nice to end a movie with a happy smile!
I would just like to say that I am a HUGE Julie Garwood fan and have read all of her books and For the roses, renamed Rose Hill, was my favorite. When I found out they were making a movie about it I was so excited. That is until I saw it. Jennifer Garner alone was enough to ruin it for me. She didn't act anything like Mary Rose. It was embarrassing. She acted so goofy. My main problem though was that it was nothing like the book! I realize a few things have to be changed, but come on! This should have never been based on For the roses. It was terrible! Hopefully the next time they try to make one of her books into a movie they will hire a different tele write.
Possible spoilers Ahead * * * * * Well, I was very disappointed with the movie. The book it is based on is absolutely excellent. The movie changed characters, killed characters off that survived in the book, made Mary Rose into a snotty little brat and a thoroughly unlikeable character. I started taping this movie when it came on and stopped before the first hour was over. I realize a movie version of a book is hardly ever as good as the book itself, but this adaptation just purely sucked. It turned Mary Rose from a loving young woman into a person I just couldn't care about and hoped would die crossing the Atlantic and put the audience out of its misery.If you want the good story, read the book, For the Roses, by Julie Garwood. Don't bother watching this trash.Cheers.