The Cider House Rules
The film tells about Homer Wells, an orphan, grows up in a Maine orphanage. Homer is returned twice by foster parents; his first foster parents thought he was too quiet and the second parents beat him.
9 July 1965, Houston, Texas, USA
28 September 1992, Houston, Texas, USA
2 January 1968, Kingston, Jamaica
12 July 1991, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
2 March 1942, Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
31 December 1954, North Tonawanda, New York, USA
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.
January 01, 2000
Perceived as too soft by some and too weird and kinky by even more.
May 30, 2008
Hallstrom's film could have used more dramatic muscle but is nonetheless a touching, old-fashioned charmer that ultimately satisfies.
July 30, 2007
Irving's clean, economical dialogue and Hallstrom's beautifully morose direction cut the fat off of the cliches.
June 24, 2006
Hallström's humanism is possibly a little low key and romantic given such tough themes as abortion and incest.
July 14, 2007
A bouillabaisse of all the best soap opera elements - orphans, abortion, debilitating injuries and, of course, death.
January 01, 2000
Misses Irving's main gifts, despite his own best scriptwriting intentions.
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.
April 09, 2005
There's quality here and that's a real good thing.
December 28, 2010
Thought-provoking movie for teens and up.
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...
