From the award-winning writer-director of Personal Velocity comes a startling drama about the nature of family and the meaning of idealsIn his first role since Gangs of New York; Daniel Day-Lewis plays Jack Slavin; an engineer who over thirty years ago walked away from the mainstream to live out a more deliberate life. But the island commune he began in hopes of a better future has long since imploded and he is now its final resident. Jacks only other companion is his 16-year-old daughter Rose (Camilla Belle); whom he has deliberately sheltered from the outside world. Now; beset by terminal illness; encroaching developers; and Roses emerging womanhood; Jack faces troubling questions about the days ahead. In an attempt to provide his daughter with the kind of family shes never known; Jack invites Kathleen (Catherine Keener); the woman hes been secretly seeing on the mainland; and her sons to live with them. But rather than comforted; Rose feels betrayed and lashes out with a willful and deliberate retribution that places her innocence on the battlefield and Kathleens safety in danger. His carefully constructed world flung out of control; Jack finds himself trapped between two headstrong women and forced to take action. With The Ballad of Jack and Rose; award-winning filmmaker Rebecca Miller hascreated a powerful and poetic third feature about a man who has cut himself off from a society that refuses to live up to his standards; and a young girls sudden coming-of-age.
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