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what happened to you people who thought this was bad
I agree with Newsiesgirl this was great, but I have not read the book.

HOW COULD JULIE LET THEM DO THIS TO HER WONDERFUL BOOK!!!!!
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.

Bad movie, does not deserve to be related to the book
I read some reviews online who said that they changed the movie from the book and that they did not like it because of it. I did not really pay much attention to that because I was expecting changes. This happens to everything that comes from a book onto the screen. However I have to say that it was really not well done. It did not deserve any relation with the book 'For the roses' at all because they changed even the most basic story line in the book. SPOILER ***** Mary Rose and Harrison are now brother and sister ***** I can live with many things, including stretching the proloque further then the book, adding a couple of characters and omitting some, because not everything that works in a book could work in a movie, but the story is between Mary Rose and Harrison, their funny interatction on the ranch and then in England, it is the core. They did not even though that, invented a complete new love interst. Another main thing in the book, the loyalty of her adopeted family to each other, is not really portrayed at all.
To sum it up, it is not worth to buy it. Even if you do not consider the book at all, the movie seems to be missing something. It is not worth it.

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