The Ballad of Jack and Rose

The Ballad of Jack and Rose

Actors:  Daniel Day-Lewis, Catherine Keener, Camilla Belle Directors:  Rebecca Miller

1986. Jack Slavin, an engineer by trade, and his mid-teen daughter Rose Slavin live in virtual isolation on what was once a commune that Jack and a group of others built in 1968 on sparsely populated Marsh Island off the U.S. east coast. Rose's mother abandoned them when Rose was five. Jack has passed to Rose a sense of ecological preservation,...