A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event that comes to redefine t... Read allA look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event that comes to redefine their relationship.A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event that comes to redefine their relationship.
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- 4 wins & 8 nominations
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- TriviaElle Fanning had her first screen kiss on this movie.
- GoofsGinger and Rosa supposedly ride upon a whirling children's roundabout, and yet their hair isn't blown about by the wind.
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[last lines]
Ginger: [sitting writing in notebook] We had a dream... that we would always be best friends. When we were born... for some it was the end. Now it seems there may not be tomorrow. But despite the horror... and the sorrow... I love our world. I want us all to live. Now, Rosa, you've asked me to forgive. One day, if Mum survives this bitter night... then we shall meet again, and I will say... I loved you, Rosa. Don't you see? But we are different. You dream of everlasting love. Not me. Because what really matters, is to live. And if we do... there will be nothing to forgive.
Roland: [sitting nearby] What are you writing?
Ginger: Oh, a poem... about the future.
Roland: I'm sorry, Ginger. I'm so sorry.
Ginger: [continues to writing] But I'll forgive you anyway.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #21.63 (2012)
- SoundtracksL'il Darlin
Performed by Count Basie
Written by Neal Hefti
© Cinephonic Music Co Ltd
Courtesy of EMI Records Ltd
Ginger (an exceptional Elle Fanning) has found her life turned upside down when her squabbling parents – the put-upon, under-appreciated, one-time artist mother (Mad Men's Christina Hendricks) and the esteemed, bohemian, philandering professor father (Alessandro Nivola) – decide to separate and her closest friend Rosa (Alice Englert) could care less as she is more interested in wearing eye shadow and nail polish to impress the random teenage boy.
To become more active and to distract herself from her own life's unraveling situation (thanks, Rosa!), Ginger takes on the cause of nuclear disarmament after being swayed by the conversations of her mother's political activist friends (O. Platt, T. Spall and A. Bening). No matter the bigger obstacles Ginger takes upon herself, the various actions of her family and friends are what ultimately threaten the young girl and her well-being.
Ginger & Rosa is a decent film that will not appeal to a mass audience. It is a slow-moving character-study of the film's strongest character, Ginger. Luckily Rosa -- a character who is very hard to like from the get-go (selfish) -- isn't really featured enough to merit her name in the title. Some will see the film as ponderous as the young Ginger strives to find reason and purpose; but she is a realistic character and Fanning is subtle in some scenes and fantastic in others. (THIS is the more-talented Fanning sister and I have felt this way since Somewhere).
I tried to explain the "feel" of the film to a friend the other day and I said it was much like placing a pot of water on the stove for it to boil. It is a pot of water sitting on a stove (exciting!) ... just sitting there as it simmers while we get a bubble here and a bubble there! When it finally hits the boiling point -- watch out! -- because it could boil over!
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- Apr 3, 2013
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- Ginger and Rosa
- Filming locations
- Dungeness, Kent, England, UK(various beach scenes where Ginger and Rosa walk along the beach and sit on the boardwalk.)
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- Gross US & Canada
- $1,012,973
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $42,838
- Mar 17, 2013
- Gross worldwide
- $1,674,776
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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