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Plot: 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'...( read more read more... )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

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  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    February 29, 2008
    Fonda does a great job here but the whole movie is worth seeing. The landscape is well chosen and the cinematography is great.
  • 0.5 Stars
    MCT:
    December 10, 2006
    Waste of TIME!! Very Weak movie, DO NOT WATCH, if you do end up watching it, side effects may include: Suicide, murder ramapages, road ramapage, any kinds of ways of harming yourself, and many others...
  • 2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    November 22, 2006
    Once more I lose my street cred as a lover of quality movies when I turn this off after half an hour because I am bored.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    September 25, 2006
    Peter Fonda gives the performance of his carreer here. Subtle, low key, and a total pleasure to watch! Fonda was robbed at the 1997 Oscars (no offense, Jack Nicholson)!! He should have won!

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  • Rated: (R)
  • Directed by: Victor Nunez
  • Genres: Drama
  • Released: June 13, 1997
  • DVD Released: May 15, 2001

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