today i have brought a 2005 romance
drama film called the ballad of jack and
rose
it follows the story of a father and
daughter who live on an isolated island
when the father invites his girlfriend
to move in his daughter gets jealous of
her as she is in love with her father
to know what happens watch the complete
video
so let's start
the film is set in the year 1986 where
scottish farmer jack slavin lives with
his daughter rose on an island the
island used to be a hippie commune
decades ago but now builders want to
build houses in the area and settle with
their families
jack is trying to do everything he can
to keep the builders away from the
island
rose on the other hand is a beautiful
teenager who grew up isolated from the
outside world
after her mother left the family jack
homeschooled rose and took care of her
jack has a heart ailment and he doesn't
have much time left
so he tells rose that they should hire
someone to help them
but rose doesn't want anyone else to
come into their life and angrily leaves
she runs to her treehouse and starts
crying
jack goes after her and tells rose that
she will leave before he dies but rose
replies that the day he dies will also
be her last day
for rose jack is the only person in her
life she loves and is afraid of losing
him
without him rose will be completely
alone as she has no one in her life
except jack
after telling her a story jack leaves
for a nearby town saying that he has
some work to do
after reaching the town jack goes to the
house of a woman named kathleen
she is the girlfriend of jack and they
have been in a relationship for some
time
jack asks kathleen to move into his
house and live with them
he also tells her that she can bring
over her two kids as well to live with
them
kathleen accepts his request and asks
him if rose knows about this to which
jack replies that he will take care of
her
jack returns home and tells rose that he
has invited some guests to stay with
them for a while as an experiment
the next day kathleen arrives with her
two sons thaddeus and rodney
jack and rose welcome them and help them
get their things
but after seeing their luggage and
belongings rose realizes that they are
going to stay for a long time
rose is disturbed by the arrival of the
new faces and feels cast off from her
own house
rose is upset with jack and leaves
jack goes after her and tries talking to
her
but rose is angry with him as jack had
kept his relationship with kathleen a
secret
jack explains that this is just an
experiment and nothing else
if rose starts liking kathleen and her
children then they can all stay together
but if not then jack will ask them to
leave
later that day thaddeus approaches rose
and asks her to show him any nearby
places where he can catch snakes
rose takes him to the woods and thaddeus
sets up his trap
thaddeus is attracted to her but rose
doesn't like him
later that night rose returns home and
heads to her room
on her way she hears jack and kathleen
laughing
rose enters a small room to spy on them
and sees them making love in bed
she goes to her room takes off her top
and looks at her body
rose develops a strange jealousy towards
kathleen as she feels that kathleen is
stealing jack from her
rose goes downstairs topless and asks
rodney to mate with her
she thinks that if she loses her
virginity then jack will love her again
rodney is shocked by this and refuses to
make with her
he tries to reason with her but rose
pursues him to mate with her
but rodney is a man of commitment who
politely turns her down
instead he gives rose a new haircut
after getting the haircut rose grabs the
shotgun and heads straight to her
father's bedroom
kathleen wakes up and is scared to see
rose pointing a gun at them
rose is startled by her and drops the
gun which accidentally misfires
jack takes rose to her room and is in
complete disbelief
but he soon forgets about the incident
and thinks that she did it just to scare
kathleen
however kathleen thinks that rose has
some psychological problems and suggests
jack to send rose to schools for
children with problems
but jack gets upset by this and tells
kathleen that there is nothing wrong
with rose
all he wants is for kathleen to take
care of rose after he dies
time passes by and rose and rodney
become good friends
one day a man named gray comes to their
house who often deliver flowers to rose
and jack
later rose requests gray to teach her
how to kiss
gray explains to rose that her first
kiss should be romantic and accidental
not planned
rose tells him that he can romantically
kiss her but gray refuses and leaves
one day rodney and rose go to the docks
to receive rodney's friend red berry
after reaching home rose shows red berry
her tree house where they have fun all
day
later that night rose goes to the woods
and finds a copperhead trapped in
thaddeus trap rose decides to bring it
with her
while returning rose catches red berry
and thaddeus mating in his car
since rose was turned down by both
rodney and gray she decides to lose her
virginity to thaddeus
rose returns home and puts the
copperhead under her bed
later thaddeus enters rose's room
although rose dislikes him she allows
him to mate with her
due to the vibration of the bed the lock
of the cage drops open and the
copperhead escapes into a hole
after thaddeus leaves rose checks her
sheets where she finds blood stains and
dances in excitement
the next morning when jack is chilling
outside he sees that rose has hanged her
bloody bed sheet in the front yard and
has written just an experiment
jack is devastated to learn that his
daughter has been ruined
just when he is about to scold rose
kathleen cries out loud as she sees the
copperhead in the bedroom
jack tries to find the copperhead and
get rid of it before it kills anyone
meanwhile thaddeus finds his cage under
rose's bed
rose explains that she just wanted to
scare kathleen and nothing more
after dealing with the copperhead jack
confronts thaddeus and gives him one day
to move out for ruining his daughter
later that night rose holds a screening
of a homemade movie about the hippie
commune in her treehouse
while everyone enjoys the film thaddeus
tries to kiss rose
jack is furious at him and attacks him
during the scuffle rose pushes thaddeus
who then falls from the treehouse
kathleen is angry at rose and tells her
to leave
thaddeus survives the fall and is rushed
to the hospital
rodney asks rose to come with him and
leave the island
but rose politely declines saying that
she can't leave jack not in his current
situation
but rose is upset with jack for not
having the courage to express his love
and runs away
she goes to one of the housing
developments to spend some time alone
jack waits for days for rose to return
home but she doesn't come back
jack is tired of waiting and heads out
to find rose
he finds her in one of the housing
developments and apologizes to rose
saying that he should have never let the
outside world in
he was scared that after his death there
would be no one to take care of rose
rose says that she doesn't want to see
kathleen again not after what happened
at the tree house
jack realizes that he has to choose
between his girlfriend and daughter
so he leaves saying that he has to take
care of a transaction
he returns home and offers kathleen ten
thousand dollars then 15 to have her
move out
kathleen agrees to leave at twenty
thousand dollars
jack returns to the housing development
and tells rose that kathleen is leaving
rose is overjoyed with the news as it's
again just the two of them now
jack and rose spend the night there as
kathleen will be leaving the next day
jack lies down on the bed and rose joins
him
as they look at each other rose kisses
jack
jack is shocked by this and cannot
believe that his daughter is in love
with him
he also blames himself for allowing her
to kiss him and cries
the next morning jack wakes up and is
still haunted by the memory of the kiss
he gets on the bulldozer and destroys
the housing development
later he and rose go to the house of the
housing developer marty rantz
jack wanted to tell him that he
destroyed the housing development
but marty says that he can build it
again without any problem
he also offers jack a huge sum of money
to purchase his land
jack breaks down as he has no fight left
in him and agrees to sell his land to
marty
rose is upset by his decision and
doesn't want jack to give up
but jack has made up his mind as he
wants rose to have a future
rose and jack return home and see that
kathleen has left
jack is now very weak because of the
heart ailment and doesn't have much time
left the next morning rose wakes up and
sees that jack has died in his sleep
since rose had originally planned to
kill herself and jack would die she lies
next to her father and sets the house on
fire
but some sometime later she changes her
mind and escapes
two years later rose is now living in
vermont and works at a greenhouse where
gray also works
she is pursuing her passion for
gardening and is living the life her
father wanted her to
so this was the story of the ballad of
jack and rose
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