The Cider House Rules

The Cider House Rules

  • Director: Lasse Hallström
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: January 7, 2000
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital, SDDS, DTS
  • Aspect ratio: 2.39 : 1
  • Also known as: Las reglas de la vida
  • "The Cider House Rules" is a feature film released by Miramax Films, directed by Lasse Hallström, starring Tobey Maguire , Charlize Theron , Maurice Joseph Micklewhite and others. The film was released in the United States on December 17, 1999.
    The film is adapted from John Owen's novel of the same name. It tells the story of a young man in Maine who runs away from home, finds true love, and finally repositions his life   .

    Details

    • Release date January 7, 2000
    • Filming locations Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
    • Production companies FilmColony, Miramax, Nina Saxon Film Design

    Box office

    Budget

    $24,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $57,545,092

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $110,098

    Gross worldwide

    $88,545,092

    Movie reviews

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    • By Carolyn 2022-04-24 07:01:07

      I hope that whenever things change, there will always be a scorching sun

      I like this Chinese translation name, as healing as the film itself.

      I watched this movie on the train. The playwright of the film is just the original, and is really good at telling sadness and joy in a calm and repressed tone, and the emotions expressed in this repressed way just make the viewers comprehend more deeply.

      Recently, I am experiencing the most tangled situation since I worked for three years. I can't see clearly what I want, I am afraid that I can't ask for...

    • By Providenci 2022-04-23 07:02:10

      The story of a boy's spiritual growth

      The hero, Homer, is an orphan in an orphanage. The dean has trained him to become a skilled gynecologist since he was a child. He hopes that Homer will take over when he is unable to manage the orphanage. But Homer did not understand and was very resistant to abortion, thinking that it was a murder, which eventually led him to leave the orphanage because he could not bear the pressure of the dean to give him responsibility. . .
      Abortion, abandonment, responsibility and love are the themes...

    • By Rubie 2022-04-23 07:02:10

      Everyone has their own place

      The movies I watched recently were all related to dreams. It was also a dream, and Toto ended up staying in Rome. And Homer eventually returned to his remote orphanage. Dr. Li Zhi, like Alfredo, is Homer's mentor and loves Homer, teaching him medical skills, helping him escape military service, and helping him make fake diplomas. The difference is that Alfredo wants Toto to chase his dream, while Rich wants Homer to stay in the orphanage to succeed him. When Homer wanted to pursue his dream and...

    • By Ludwig 2022-04-23 07:02:10

      Men's Identity - Watch The Cider House Rules (There's Always a Sun or Cider House Rules)

      This is an old movie released in the United States in 1999. I am not familiar with the director and starring actors. Some of them are familiar and can’t even name them. I usually don’t pay much attention to these when I watch movies. enough.

          The literal translation of the title should be "Cider House Rules". It seems that most of the content of the film is explaining the rules, the rules of life for different classes and people. The main line should be about an abandoned baby...

    • By Sarina 2022-04-23 07:02:10

      Movie Talk [0207] The Cider House Rules There is always a sun

      2013-01-31

      "Good Will Hunting" has two Chinese names, "Soul Catcher" and "The Sun Is Like Me". And the translation of the name of this "The Cider House Rules" is obviously not through the brain.

      Homer, who has always been calm like a lake, has an epic name, but lives the most prosaic life. The moment he boarded the St. Clouds train, the fate of most of his life was already certain, and he would spend his final days in an orphanage just like his "father". This fate seems too s

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    • By Domenick 2023-08-13 14:47:03

      The world is inherently painful, without exception. You can have love, but don't be attached, because separation is inevitable. The movie is obviously loyal to the original, and I don't know why there is a feeling of telling two completely different...

    • By Susie 2023-08-11 15:12:51

      From the beginning to the end, there is a hint of sadness and timelessness, just like another version of "Lian Lian Feng Chen". When we are little or nothing, we always want to see the outside world. As the song sings, the outside world is very exciting, and the outside world is also very helpless. Going around in circles, going around in a circle, sometimes you will find that the starting point is the best...

    • By Katlyn 2023-08-06 12:49:49

      Good night, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England. How young they...

    • By Davonte 2023-07-24 03:37:18

      I finally burst into tears, Good night ,you princes of Maine, you kings of new...

    • By Erika 2023-07-05 18:24:24

      After watching this film, I suddenly wanted to eat apples, and I also thought that 1900 stopped when he was about to get off the boat and never left again. Relentless pursuit or relentless pursuit? Good night, Princes of Maine, and fellow citizens of New...

    Creative process

    "The Cider House Rules" is adapted from the novel of the same name published by American writer John Owen in 1985. However, in order to make the novel into a movie, Owen has gone through 13 years of hard work. The first to work with Irving to adapt the screenplay was director Philip Bosas. Shortly after the novel was published, the screenplay gradually took shape in Paul Newman's living room, and Dale Lindo was also involved. While...
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    Evaluation action

    The film uses exquisite composition and sophisticated shooting techniques to create a touch of loneliness and a warm sense of belonging, bringing the audience a kind of peace of mind and inner stability. The lens in the film uses a long lens, which creates a more intimate and warm aesthetic sense of the picture, which is also a kind of extension of emotion, so that the audience can clearly experience the director's expressive intention...
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    Movie quotes

    • Fuzzy: I like orange. Should I keep the teeth orange?

    • [We see Homer writing to Dr. Larch and hear the words in his voice as we are shown variously relevant scenes]

      Homer: Dear Dr. Larch. Thank you for your doctor's bag, although it seems that I will not have the occasion to use it, barring some emergency, of course. I am not a doctor. With all due respect to your profession, I'm enjoying my life here. I'm enjoying being a lobsterman and orchardman. In fact, I've never enjoyed myself as much. The truth is, I want to stay here. I believe I'm being of some use.

      [We hear the words Dr. Larch writes back to Homer in response]

      Dr. Wilbur Larch: My Dear Homer: I thought you were over you adolescence - the first time in our lives when we imagine we have something terrible to hide from those who love us. Do you think it's not obvious to us what's happened to you? You've fallen in love, haven't you? By the way, whatever you're up to can't be too good for your heart. Then again, it's the sort of condition that could be made worse by worrying about it, so don't worry about it.

      [the back and forth correspondence continues interwoven with scenes from Homer's life at the time]

      Homer: Dear Dr. Larch, What I'm learning her may not be as important as what I learned from you, but everything is new to me. Yesterday, I learned how to poison mice. Field mice girdle an apple tree; pine mice kill the roots. You use poison oats and poison corn. I know what you have to do. You have to play God. Well, killing mice is as close as I want to come to playing God.

      Dr. Wilbur Larch: Homer, here in St. Cloud's, I have been given the opportunity of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. Men and women of conscience should sieze those moments when it's possible to play God. There won't be many. Do I interfere when absolutely helpless women tell me they simply can't have an abortion - that they simply must go through with having another and yet another orphan? I do not. I do not even recommend. I just give them what they want. You are my work of art, Homer. Everything else has been just a job. I don't know if you have a work of art in you, but I know what your job is: you're a doctor.

      Homer: I'm not a doctor.

      Dr. Wilbur Larch: You're going to replace me, Homer. The board of trustees is looking for my replacement.

      Homer: I can't replace you. I'm sorry.

      Dr. Wilbur Larch: "Sorry"? I'm not sorry. Not for anything I've done. I'm not even sorry that I love you.

      [Cut to scene of Dr. Larch sitting on a hospital bed reading Homer's letter. He is crest-fallen and one of his nurses sits down to console him]

      Dr. Wilbur Larch: [Speaking to the nurse] I think we may have lost him to the world.

    • [Candy is sitting on a dock: inconsolable after receiving the news about Wally]

      Homer: Just tell me. I'll do whatever you wanna do.

      Candy Kendall: Nothing.

      Homer: Isn't that like waiting and seeing?

      Candy Kendall: No. Nothing's nothing. I want Wally to come home. I'm afraid to see him too.

      Homer: I know.

      [Homer starts to put him arm around her and pull her close]

      Candy Kendall: Oh, don't do that, Homer.

      [Dejected, he puts both hands in his own lap]

      Candy Kendall: I just want to sit here and do nothing.

      Homer: To do nothing. It's a great idea, really. Maybe if I just wait and see long enough, then I won't have to do anything or decide anything, you know? I mean, maybe if I'm lucky enough, someone else will decide and choose and do things for me.

      Candy Kendall: What are you talking about?

      Homer: But then again, maybe I won't be that lucky. And it's not my fault. It's not your fault. And that's just it. Someone's gonna get hurt, and it's no one's fault.

      Candy Kendall: I don't want to talk about this.

      Homer: If we just sit here and, we wait and see a little longer, then maybe you won't to choose, and I won't have to *do* anything!

      Candy Kendall: What do you want from me? Wally's been shot down. He's paralyzed. What do you want me to do?

      Homer: Nothing. I'm sorry. You're not the one who has to do anything.