Rose Hill (1997)
Four orphan boys running from the law in New York stumble upon a baby in a carriage. They decide to head west and take the baby which they name Mary Rose with them. Eventually they set up a ranch which they name Rose Hill. Mary Rose grows up to be a beautiful woman and gets involved with a man who kills one of her brothers. Her brothers then explain to her that they found her in New York and she returns to find her real family. During this time Rose Hill is falling apart since her oldest brother has fallen ill and her other two brothers have gone their separate ways.
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The Worst Film Ever
The greatest movie ever made..!
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
This movie appears to be loosely based on the book "For The Roses" published in 1995 by Julie Garwood. If you have read the book, don't bother watching this movie. Too many main details have been changed. They used all the names of the main characters - Mary Rose and her brothers, Adam, Cole, Douglas and Travis - and Elliot, but most of the rest of the character names did not have the same relationship as in the book. The screenwriter should have followed the book a lot more closely - they even made Mary Rose a brunette. She is supposed to be a blonde. No one important dies in the book - or in the sequel books. I can't believe I watched the whole thing.
This film caught me off guard when I viewed young boys picking adults pockets in a crowd in NYC and policemen blowing their whistles like in London, England. Then you observe a young girl placing a basket on a wagon and the boys taking off with a baby in the basket. These boys manage to purchase a train ticket and head West with the baby girl, Mary Rose,(Jennifer Garner). It was hard to believe these boys planned on taking care of Mary Rose since they were very poor and very young. This picture clearly shows the great love these young boys had for their adopted sister and people of all different races and backgrounds who were able to join their family of love. This is a film I could very well see over and over again.
I hated this movie. I love Julie's books, but when they did it, they changed so much of the plot that it's not the same. The death of one of her brothers was not in the book, in the series of books, he has his own book!I think if they're going to do an adaptation of a romance novel, then do it RIGHT!!!! don't change so much of it, and if they have to then let the author of the book do it, please!!!Queen of the Damned was the same way. Excellent movie,IMHO, but they left out too much, so what if it was 3 hours long, these days lots of movies are.Don't adapt a movie from a book if it can't be done in a way that shows respect for the material and the people who love it, be they male or female.
Rose Hill, which was adapted to screen "loosely" based on Julie Garwood's novel "For the Roses" by Earl Wallace (who also wrote "The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch"), is a good story in itself. If I had not read the book first, I might have enjoyed it a whole lot more. In the movie, the characters' names remained the same as in the book, however their personalities, IQ's and roles in Mary Rose's life were altered greatly.