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Cider House Rules, The (1999) Movie Reviews

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DVDActive (Holly E. Ordway)

The Cider House Rules is a movie that stirs emotions without being sentimental; it's complex and true to the characters and situations that it sets up. The DVD quality is outstanding. This is a DVD to keep and to watch again and again....read the complete Cider House Rules, The (1999) review at DVDActive (Holly E. Ordway)

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Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)

Lasse Hallström calms Irving's typically busy 1985 best-seller with a balm of the Swedish director's typically soothing lyricism....read the complete Cider House Rules, The (1999) review at Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)

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Scott Renshaw's Screening Room (Scott Renshaw)

The Cider House Rules walks an awkward tightrope between edgy humanism and dangerous sentimentality....read the complete Cider House Rules, The (1999) review at Scott Renshaw's Screening Room (Scott Renshaw)

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Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)

And yet here it perches, a turkey among eagles, amid the medium's most prestigious showcase. Miramax Films, which produced The Cider House Rules, is notorious for it's Oscar pimping, and seems geared to give this one a big fat ad budget to...read the complete Cider House Rules, The (1999) review at Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)