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The Cider House Rules
The movie 'Homer' is the only character that goes through many different transformations. He leaves the orphanage as 'born' and returns to him as a 'man.' 'Larg' and 'Homer' are closer to being a father and son than a teacher and his student. The boys and girls in the orphanage have a very strong bond, as a result of shared experiences in their sense of loneliness and depression. In fact, there are family feelings and strong ties in this orphanage than in other traditional homes. There is also a tremendous emotional feeling every evening when the doctor ' This sentence to orphans: 'Good night, princes of Maine.. Kings of New England.'
30 September 1982, New York City, New York, USA
9 July 1965, Houston, Texas, USA
2 March 1942, Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
24 May 1967, Mandeville, Jamaica
8 June 1950, Midland, Texas, USA
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23 January 1955, Manhattan, New York, USA
16 March 1950, London, Ontario, Canada
6 April 1969, Passaic, New Jersey, USA
5 February 1934, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
26 February 1971, Dallas, Texas, USA
28 September 1992, Houston, Texas, USA
23 June 1970, Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA
2 January 1968, Kingston, Jamaica
27 June 1975, Santa Monica, California, USA
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July 14, 2007
A bouillabaisse of all the best soap opera elements - orphans, abortion, debilitating injuries and, of course, death.
June 26, 2004
Not since The World According to Garp has a movie based on a John Irving novel captured the wry realism of the author's work.
April 09, 2005
There's quality here and that's a real good thing.
December 28, 2010
Thought-provoking movie for teens and up.
June 22, 2007
A softer, kinder version of John Irving's book, which was edgier and more critical, though you can't blame the filmmakers since Irving himself adapted his novel.
June 18, 2002
[It] is a fable that turns into a 1940s New England variation on Charles Dickens. It is also one dickens of an American movie.
July 30, 2007
Irving's clean, economical dialogue and Hallstrom's beautifully morose direction cut the fat off of the cliches.
May 30, 2008
Hallstrom's film could have used more dramatic muscle but is nonetheless a touching, old-fashioned charmer that ultimately satisfies.
January 01, 2000
Perceived as too soft by some and too weird and kinky by even more.
January 01, 2000
Misses Irving's main gifts, despite his own best scriptwriting intentions.
June 24, 2006
Hallström's humanism is possibly a little low key and romantic given such tough themes as abortion and incest.
April 27, 2007
Mr. Irving remains a disturbingly facile spinner of yarns in which the most sordid facts of life are glossed over into comfortably didactic homilies about the innate goodness of people. Yet, I was somehow moved...
