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Release Date: 10 June, 2003 Retail Price: $14.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (11 total) |
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Reviews
Excellent performances triumph over low budget
Kathleen Quinlan plays Debbie, a suicidal teenager who periodically retreats into a scary fantasy world inhabited by a frightening tribe of savages. This film tells the story of her stay in a mental hospital, the other patients she meets there, and her treatment by the sympathetic Dr. Fried (Bibi Andersson). This is a low-budget 70s film produced by Roger Corman but, like many of his other productions, transcends such restrictions. The resolution of the film is a little too pat, but its real power comes from the acting and authentic feel of the scenes in the mental hospital. This must have been one of Quinlan's earliest performances, and it is a heart-breaking one--sympathetic and vulnerable without compromising the more difficult and hostile aspects of her character's nature. All of the women who play Debbie's fellow inmates are outstanding, as is Andersson in her understated performance. There are plenty of familiar faces in this film. In the baseball scene at the end, look for brief appearances by a young Dennis Quaid and Ron Howard's little brother, Clint.
If you've read the book, you'll be disappointed in the movie
...and even more disappointed in the DVD.
This movie was pretty bad. Several characters in the book were mixed up in the movie. I don't know if this was done intentionally, or if they just screwed up. The timeline was also way off in the movie. I won't go so far as to say the movie sucks, but it was definitely a horrible adaptation. And the quality of the DVD is even worse.
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