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Golden Globe Nomination - Diane & Laura,
IFP's Spirit Award Winner - Diane
Diane Ladd and Laura Dern's Oscar nominations mark the first time
a mother and daughter ever received such
an accolade for appearing in the same film.
Diane Ladd shows her stuff with an acting display that outshines Geraldine Page's Academy Award winning performance in The Trip To Bountiful.
- John Delia (CHOICE) Ladd's a belt-high fast-ball down the middle, and she knocks it out of the park. - Mike LaSalle (San Francisco Chronicle) …the great Diane Ladd…as the wise wife, is luminous. Hearing-impaired, she reads lips and sees into the soul with a wrenching compassion, responding to chaos with her heart because she cannot always be sure she's hearing the words. - Rex Reed (The New York Observer) Mother is perhaps the actress' (Diane Ladd) finest mix of eccentricity and social conscience. She's the Hillyer's voice of reason! - Daniel Schweiger (Entertainment Today) Ladd has the best part of her distinguished career, and knocks it right out of the park. - Bill Hagen (San Diego Tribune) Diane Ladd has never been more powerful than as this free-thinking, spiritual-minded wife. - William Arnold (Seattle Post) Like Kathryn Hepburn's mothers in Long Day's Journey Into Night and Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, Ladd is both fulcrum and rudder of the film. - Glen Lovell (San Jose Mercury News) Ladd, playing a mother who is 180-degrees opposite of the…mom she played in Wild At Heart, and playing her exquisitely! - Soren Anderson (Tacoma News Tribune) |
Oh, Diane! Oh, Laura! The Ladd/Dern team makes a comically sensuous Rambling Rose a pure delight.
- Jami Bernard (New York Post)
- Jami Bernard (New York Post)
Ladd and Dern…Hollywood's first bankable mother-daughter team.
- Glen Lovell (San Jose Mercury News)
Ladd and Dern are, of course, mother and daughter off-screen. But their casting never seems like a gimmick…Their gradual intimacy and complicated but strong affection provide the film's backbone.
- Philip Wuntch (Dallas Morning News)
Duvall and Ladd are spectacular…hard to recall another recent American film that explores a marriage in such revealing and satisfying depth. - Robert W. Butler (Kansas City Star) Ladd and Duvall bring perfect comic timing and irresistible tenderness. - Michael Upchurch (Seattle Times) A tete-a-tete in bed between Duvall and Ladd, the intimate rhythms these two superb actors work up together capture a lifetime of marriage…true heart and soul. - David Anses (Newsweek) |
Ladd brings a hypnotically quavery softness…in every gesture, every phrasing.
- Jay Carr (Boston Globe)
One of the best actresses around today, Diane Ladd…in the best film this year, Rambling Rose…if you're only going to see one movie, see Rambling Rose!
- Sonya Live (CNN)
I found Ladd's performance especially compelling…her mother persona is quietly powerful, with enormous integrity and empathy. In a country where women are still defining themselves, and in a town where good female roles are limited, Diane manages to wrangle out one of the parts of a lifetime in a controlled performance that should ensure recognition from the members of the Academy.
- Marl Cartel (The Valley Vantage)
They don't build film stars like Diane Ladd anymore.
- Anthea Gerrie (London Times)
A show-stopping monologue by Ladd that wrenches the heart, and stirs the soul, as it calls into question the ulterior motives of these men who would 'mutilate a helpless girl.' For the quiet humanity she brings to this performance, she surely deserves all the awards there are.
- Carrie Rickey (Philadelphia Inquirer)