Tobey Maguire

Charlize Theron

Delroy Lindo

Paul Rudd

Michael Caine

Jane Alexander

Kathy Baker

Erykah Badu

Kieran Culkin

Kate Nelligan

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J.K. Simmons

Erik Per Sullivan

Paz de la Huerta

K. Todd Freeman

Evan Parke

Jimmy Flynn

Lonnie Farmer

Spencer Diamond

Skye McCole Bartusiak

Sean Andrew

John Albano

Claire Daly

Colin Irving

Annie Corley

Patrick Donnelly

Edie Schechter

Kasey Berry

Mary Bogue

Victoria Stankiewicz

Christine Stevens

Earle C. Batchelder

Norma Fine

John Irving

Eric Bruno Borgman

Kevin Chapman

John H. Tobin

Bobby Cohen

David Gropman

Richard N. Gladstein

Bob Weinstein

Lila Yacoub

Lisa Zeno Churgin

Beth A. Rubino

Kerry Barden

Meryl Poster

Oliver Stapleton

Sharyn Cordice

Katia Milani

Lasse Hallström

Billy Hopkins

Karen Schulz Gropman

Alan C. Blomquist

Leslie Holleran

Harvey Weinstein

Suzanne Smith Crowley

Diana Zock

Renee Ehrlich Kalfus

Brenda McNally

Barbara A. Hall

Peggy Schierholz

Ellie Winslow

Jane Goldsmith

Wylie Griffin

Ron Bolanowski

Michele Platt

Deborah K. Larsen

Louie Zakarian

Wayne Herndon

Gina Alfano

Laura Civiello

Magdaline Volaitis

Peter Waggoner

Paul Byrne Prenderville

Louis Bertini

Petur Hliddal

Jasmine Kosovic

Alex Raspa

David Boulton

Christina Stauffer

Bob Chefalas

Bruce Kitzmeyer

Maurice Schell

Brian Vancho

William Morts

Bitty O'Sullivan-Smith

Zachary K. Lazar

Robert Bolanowski

Richard P. Cirincione

Bob Olari

Phillip Fuller

Joshua Landis

Tom Perry

Phil Hadaway

Eytan Mirsky

Frank Morrone

Jacob Ribicoff

Steve Pederson

Ant Bohun

Joe Dohner

Marissa Littlefield

Dan Korintus

Scott Jones

Stephen P. Dunn

Harry Peck Bolles

Dominick Tavella

Rachel Portman

Charles Croughwell

Denney Pierce

Drama

The Cider House Rules

Miramax

Nina Saxon Film Design

FilmColony

United States of America

English

Beauty and the beast in Maine during WWII

On the surface “The Cider House Rules” (1999) is a quality period piece about life at an apple orchard and orphanage in Maine during WWII. Tobey Maguire stars as Homer Wells, who was raised at a remote orphanage and favored by caretaker Dr. Larch (Michael Caine), who imparts his vast medical knowledge & skills to the young man. At the age of 21 Homer decides to leave the orphanage with a couple that stopped by for an illegal abortion and ends up working at an apple orchard. Will he ever return?

It's the subtext where the film soars for those interested in ruminations on the complexities of morality and the place that outward or inward rules play.

Here's a taste: The movie contrasts outer rules with innate moral rules. The former can be broken as it suits the individual without any ill-effects, like the cider house rules in the film or stepping over the wall at Niagara Falls to get a better picture; innate moral rules, however, cannot be broken without severe consequences. To illustrate, the apple workers rightly mock the cider house rules made by people who don't know what it's like to live & work there, but one laborer breaks a universal spiritual law and so loses a close relationship and something worse, which conveys the idea that "the wages of sin is death."

Another example involves the rules of society demanding that a person have proper credentials in order to do the work Dr. Larch performs, and understandably so, but official credentials on a wall are irrelevant in regards to some people, like Homer, who's thoroughly expert at his craft, credentials or no credentials. And so Larch creates fake "proper" credentials to appease officials and patients.

Also, Wally & Candy (Paul Rudd & Charlize Theron) impulsively have an illegal abortion at the beginning of the movie but, by the end, it doesn't look like they're going to have very wild sex anymore (which is different than saying they won't have any sexual relations). They no doubt strongly regret deciding to break the rules and have an abortion, which was illegal at the time.

Obviously the movie's not far Left or far Right; it's somewhere in the middle in its realistic reflections on moral complexities and ambiguities. Both sides of the abortion debate, for instance, are presented. And, while it could be argued that the movie somewhat supports the pro-choice position, it doesn’t neglect to convey the conservative view and effectively shows how the debate is more complex than black or white. For example, if a man forces his self on a woman and she gets pregnant, the life within her is not there by her choice and therefore she arguably has the right to abort that life with the blood of the child being on the head of the impregnating male.

Elsewhere, Homer argues the conservative position, suggesting that people should be responsible enough to control themselves BEFORE a woman is impregnated and the ugly issue of abortion rears its head. Dr. Larch later remarks that he wishes the world were as idealistic as Homer sees it, but instead we’re stuck with an intricately phukked up planet where people make wrong choices all the time, which have a negative domino effect.

The film runs 2 hours, 6 minutes and was shot in Northampton, Massachusetts (orphanage); Dummerston, Vermont (orchard); Bernard, Corea and Sand Beach, Maine; as well as surrounding New England locations.

GRADE: B+

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