Rambling Rose (film)

Rambling Rose
Official poster
Directed byMartha Coolidge
Screenplay byCalder Willingham
Based onRambling Rose
1972 novel
by Calder Willingham
Produced byRenny Harlin
Mario Kassar
Edgar J. Scherick
Starring
CinematographyJohnny E. Jensen
Edited bySteven Cohen
Music byElmer Bernstein
Production
companies
Distributed bySeven Arts
(through New Line Cinema)
Release date
  • September 20, 1991 (1991-09-20)
Running time
112 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$7.5 million
Box office$6.3 million

Rambling Rose is a 1991 American drama film directed by Martha Coolidge and written by Calder Willingham (based on his 1972 novel of the same name). It stars Laura Dern and Robert Duvall in leading roles, with Lukas Haas, John Heard, and Diane Ladd in supporting roles. The film is set in Georgia during the Great Depression (1935).

Ahead of the 64th Academy Awards in 1992, Dern was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, while her real-life mother Ladd was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, making them the first mother-daughter duo to be nominated for Academy Awards for the same film or in the same year. The film won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film and Coolidge won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director.