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xsBusiness - Rose Hill
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Manufacturer: Hallmark
Starring: Jennifer Garner, Jeffrey D. Sams, Zak Orth, Justin Chambers, Tristan Tait
Directed By: Christopher Cain
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781574924329
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 157492432X
Label: Hallmark
Manufacturer: Hallmark
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hallmark
Release Date: 2002-04-23
Running Time: 99
Studio: Hallmark
Theatrical Release Date: 1997-04-20
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Summary: I Wanted to Slap Julie Garwood for this Tragedy of a Movie!
Comment: This was the worse adaption from book to movie I've ever seen!
I fell in love with Julie Garwood's book, For the Roses. It is a wonderfully sexy, mysterious, and funny story! I was so excited to find that a movie was made on one my favorite books. Boy was I in for a disappointment!
There's trivial things I can point to in the movie, but what's way, way worse is that the only thing that is correct in the movie are the names of the characters.
I was so PISSED OFF that the main characters, Mary Rose and Harrison, didn't even like each other until the VERY end. Harrison was a puny, annoying character (not at all lovable) and Mary Rose... well let's just say that I hate how Jennifer Garner portrays her. I bet she didn't even read the book! And then Mary Rose falls in love with some shoot-em-up cowboy! Where'd that come from? AND THE BROTHERS? Let's not even get started... or shall we? One of them dies and one of them marries an Indian woman. The family has a feud. I don't even see the loving connection between them all as portrayed in the book!
I was laughing and yelling the whole way through the movie. Laughing because it was so cheesy and yelling because the movie and book are two totally different stories. It's not Julie Garwood's fault that the movie is so very, very bad. I bet she was just as annoyed with the directors of the film. She's just too polite!
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Summary: Terrible! ***BOOK SPOILERS***
Comment: Rose Hill was not For the Roses. It's like they just robbed the book of the characters' names! I know that movies based on books make changes to help the transistion to the screen but the butchery done here was above and beyond.
Mary Rose was a stong intelligent woman in the book. Her brothers sent her off to school in St. Louis not in the back of wagons. She was in love with a scottish man named Harrison not Fergus. Harrison was a big strong lawyer who worked for her English father. The nannie who helped take her was killed at the very start. And it was her father's right hand man who did it. Mary Rose goes to visit her father because she wants to but comes home because they want to change her. Her and Harrison are happily married and she is preggers by the end of the book.
Some of the other major differences are that Cole does not die. And Adam is what holds the Clayborne family together. And they would never abandon each other! Also where was Mama Rose, she could have been squeezed in there somewhere!
The movie aside from the book the movie was just lacking. I dont recommend the movie at all. However the books (For the Roses, The Clayborne Brides, and Come the Spring) are WONDERFUL!!!
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Summary: Nothing like the book!
Comment: If you've never read the Julie Garwood book on which this is based, you might find the movie just mediocre. If you've read "For the Roses", you will hate this movie. It is NOTHING like the book. Basically, they take the names and premise, and then twist it into something unrecognizeable.
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Summary: All On It's Own
Comment: I read the books years ago and just saw the movie tonight. I was surprised by the movie. It had been a while since I've read the books so I couldn't remember if the movie accurately portrayed them. It did not. If you're looking for an accurate account of the books this is not the movie for you, but if you'd like to be entertained by a heart-warming movie then watch "Rose Hill". The movie is good all on it's own but compared to the books it is lacking.
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Summary: HOW COULD JULIE LET THEM DO THIS TO HER WONDERFUL BOOK!!!!!
Comment: When I saw the movie Rose Hill was an adaptation of one of my favorite author's book, I was very excited to watch it. I should have skipped it. The only thing they got right was the make up of the family. Two of the main characters from the book are killed off in the movie but Julie actually wrote separate stories for them. It has been a while since I read the book but who the heck is Fergus. I don't remember him from the book but the movie implies that he ends up with Mary Rose. Look, I understand that when a book is adapted into a movie there will be some artistic license taken, such as the deletion of minor characters or the addition of others; but when you totally change the main characters and what happens to them, you are not taking artistic license, you are telling a story that is totally different from the original. Give me a break. The people who made Rose Hill need to talk to the people who adapted the John Grisham books into movies. I watched some of those movies before reading the books and vice versa and although artistic license was taken, the movies pretty much stayed true to the books. I don't know how Julie Garwood could have put her name on this movie because it was no where near the wonderful story she wrote. Didn't she read the screenplay before she agreed to this movie. I hope, if she agrees to have another one of her books adapted into a movie, she ensures that the movie comes somewhere close to resembling the book in someway or form, such has having the main characters who are suppose be alive stay alive and having them marry characters that were actually in the books.
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