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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 3760001371048 Format: PAL Languages: Region Code: 2 Theatrical Release Date: June 13, 1997 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Director Victor Nunez's richly photographed Ulee's Gold drew critical acclaim for Peter Fonda's and Patricia Richardson's subtle performances--and premiered as the Festival Centerpiece in 1997's Sundance Film Festival. Vividly photographed and set amid southern Florida's tupelo swamps, the film's narrative hinges on the evolution of a more-than-platonic connection between neighbors Ulysses, Ulee for short (Fonda), and Connie (Richardson). Known for her role on TV's Home Improvement, Richardson makes a satisfying foray into film with this appropriately smaller role where she manages to hatch out of potential typecasting. Fonda's independent, stubborn, and reserved Ulee anchors the narrative. He is a bee keeper whose struggling small business is all that keeps him focused in the wake of his wife Penelope's death, his daughter-in-law Helen's (Christine Dunford) drug addiction, and the de facto single-parent obligations he takes on to his adolescent granddaughters. (Notice the Homeric references.) Soon the plot twists, however, in the sociopathy of Eddie and Ferris, friends of Ulee's jailed son--a sociopathy that is also the impetus for the family to confront its dysfunction and for Connie and Ulee to see more in each other than mere neighborliness. Thankfully, Nunez foregoes the bathos of a Hollywood ending and leaves us satisfied on one hand with Helen's healing and Eddie's justice but uncertain, though hopeful, about Ulee's next step. --Erik Macki Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The movie that began Jessica Biel's illustrious film career. Let's face it, there's nothing illustrious about Biel's film career, but she's still the hottest face out there today, and honestly, is the only reason I initially watched Ulee's Gold (the TV synopsis said she was in it, thus, the reason I watched it). Sadly, this is Biel in her first film, thus, before she became the beauty we all know her for today (I think she was an awkward sixteen year old when she made this movie). But Ulee's Gold pulls a trick out of its hat by actually having ... Read More Rating:  - VERY TOUCHING FILMI loved the film and it is in my top recommendations to everybody. Its subject is simple: The life of a beekeeper who was a war veteran in Vietnam, a beautiful view of bee culture, and a family disrupted by death, prison, and drugs. This film is a must. Rating: - Good as GoldFonda delivers here as an understated everyman hero. Why is Ulee the way he is? This is a believable story and not stock at all. Fantastic supporting cast. Patricia Richardson from "Home Improvement" shows she is not a 2nd bannana. Besides, you will gain a ton of information on the honeybee business. Rating:  - Peter Fonda is excellentPeter Fonda is superb as the bitter, we-don't-need-anybody's-help family head who raises bees in Florida for a living, and must suddenly deal with a daughter-in-law (played by Christine Dunford) strung out on drugs and a son (Tom Wood) who's in prison on robbery charges. A couple of ex-con buddies of Wood learn that he hid away a lot of the money from the robbery they committed, and they make it plain to Fonda that they want it. Fonda's got to figure out how to deal with these two ex-cons while trying ... Read More Rating: - A great movieI really enjoyed the story line. it spoke to me because i had a hard time relating to others when i first got back to the world. peter fonda does a great job making you believe its real. I highly recomend Ulees Gold. T. D. G. |
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