Ulee's Gold [VHS] | ![Ulee's Gold [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51V2JYNMK8L._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Victor Nunez
Actors: Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson, Christine Dunford, Tom Wood (ii), Jessica Biel
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: Video
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 35816
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0792841913
UPC: 027616783035
EAN: 9780792841913
ASIN: 0792841913
Theatrical Release Date: June 13, 1997
Release Date: June 6, 2000
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Director Victor Nunez's richly photographed Ulee's Gold drew critical acclaim for Peter Fonda's and Patricia Richardson's subtle performances--and premiered as the Festival Centerpiece in 1997's Sundance Film Festival. Vividly photographed and set amid southern Florida's tupelo swamps, the film's narrative hinges on the evolution of a more-than-platonic connection between neighbors Ulysses, Ulee for short (Fonda), and Connie (Richardson). Known for her role on TV's Home Improvement, Richardson makes a satisfying foray into film with this appropriately smaller role where she manages to hatch out of potential typecasting. Fonda's independent, stubborn, and reserved Ulee anchors the narrative. He is a bee keeper whose struggling small business is all that keeps him focused in the wake of his wife Penelope's death, his daughter-in-law Helen's (Christine Dunford) drug addiction, and the de facto single-parent obligations he takes on to his adolescent granddaughters. (Notice the Homeric references.) Soon the plot twists, however, in the sociopathy of Eddie and Ferris, friends of Ulee's jailed son--a sociopathy that is also the impetus for the family to confront its dysfunction and for Connie and Ulee to see more in each other than mere neighborliness. Thankfully, Nunez foregoes the bathos of a Hollywood ending and leaves us satisfied on one hand with Helen's healing and Eddie's justice but uncertain, though hopeful, about Ulee's next step. --Erik Macki
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 Love this movie!! June 10, 2009
Rhett A. Butler
Wonderful film. Have seen it several times and bought it as a gift for
a friend because she loves honey and I thought she would get a kick out of watching a good movie that had beekeeping in the background. The film is full of emotion but delivered with quiet charm. Heartwarming!!
 this is not your 60's Peter Fonda May 12, 2009
R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
Peter Fonda here is more like his Dad than his famous Easy Rider 60's role.
His character is a hard working bee keeper who, when his TV broke, never bought anther one.
When the drug addict daughter -law comes home
you see a marked change in this family in a few short weeks.
I see this movie as Peter Fonda seeking redemption
for his past mistakes.
I liked the movie, but I think the truth is somewhere between the extremes of roles.
Sweet little film December 14, 2008
S. Kay Murphy (Mt. Baldy, CA USA)
I found the opening shot in this film chilling, and not because I found the bees disturbing. As the camera moves in to Peter Fonda's face, for a moment, he looks exactly like his dad....
As other reviewers have pointed out, the film is slow moving. If you're not the type to use honey because you're too impatient to wait for it to flow slowly from the jar, you probably won't appreciate what takes place here. But a tension develops in the first moments of the film that is nicely sustained until the very end. Further, there are some scenes in which the verisimiltude hits so close to home I found myself getting anxious. Anyone with a dysfunctional family understands that as each member makes poor choices, the entire family is affected in some way eventually. Enough said there.
Peter Fonda has come into his own in this film. I'd love to see him do more work like this.
The movie that began Jessica Biel's illustrious film career. May 30, 2008
Joel Munyon (Joliet, Illinois - the poohole of America.)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Let's face it, there's nothing illustrious about Biel's film career, but she's still the hottest face out there today, and honestly, is the only reason I initially watched Ulee's Gold (the TV synopsis said she was in it, thus, the reason I watched it).
Sadly, this is Biel in her first film, thus, before she became the beauty we all know her for today (I think she was an awkward sixteen year old when she made this movie). But Ulee's Gold pulls a trick out of its hat by actually having a solid plotline that supersedes any one actor's presence within the film.
The plot deals with Ulee, who is a beekeeper and who's raising two granddaughters due to their father spending time in jail and their mother who is on the run as a drug addict. The story escalates when two thugs, who were formerly associated with Ulee's imprisoned son, come looking for money they believe is hidden from a former heist, and seek Ulee as a source to where it might be.
This film was the centerpiece film at Sundance's 1997 Film Festival and still stands as an excellent example of independent film making.
VERY TOUCHING FILM April 9, 2007
Moises Asis (Miami, FL)
I loved the film and it is in my top recommendations to everybody. Its subject is simple: The life of a beekeeper who was a war veteran in Vietnam, a beautiful view of bee culture, and a family disrupted by death, prison, and drugs. This film is a must.
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