The Ballad of Jack and Rose
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| Directed by | Rebecca Miller |
| Produced by |
Caroline Kaplan Graham King Lemore Syvan Melissa Marr Ethan Smith |
| Written by | Rebecca Miller |
| Starring |
Camilla Belle Daniel Day-Lewis Catherine Keener Paul Dano |
| Music by | Michael Rohatyn |
| Cinematography | Ellen Kuras |
| Edited by | Sabine Hoffman |
| Distributed by | IFC Films |
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Release date
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January 23, 2005 (Sundance) March 25, 2005 |
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Running time
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112 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.5 million |
| Box office | $916,051 |
The Ballad of Jack and Rose is a 2005 drama film written and directed by Rebecca Miller, and starring her husband Daniel Day-Lewis; it also stars Camilla Belle, Catherine Keener, Paul Dano, Ryan McDonald, Jason Lee, Jena Malone, Susanna Thompson and Beau Bridges. The film tells the story of an environmentalist and his teenage daughter who live on a secluded island commune. It was filmed in Rock Barra, Prince Edward Island, Canada and in New Milford, Connecticut.
Jack Slavin (Daniel Day-Lewis), a Scottish farmer with a heart ailment, lives on an island which had been a hippie commune decades before. He is struggling to keep landowners from building developments on the wetland. His teenaged daughter Rose (Camilla Belle) is a beautiful but isolated girl with a passion for gardening. Since Rose's mother had left the family, Jack homeschooled his daughter and did not expose her to life beyond their small island home. Jack believes that they both "need a woman around." He travels to the mainland to ask his girlfriend Kathleen (Catherine Keener) to move in with him. Jack breaks the news to a shocked Rose, from whom he had kept his relationship a secret. Rose remains disdainful when Kathleen and her two teenage sons move in.
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