Rose Hill (1997)

Terrible! ***BOOK SPOILERS***
Rose Hill was not For the Roses. It's like they just robbed the book of the characters' names! I know that movies based on books make changes to help the transistion to the screen but the butchery done here was above and beyond.
Mary Rose was a stong intelligent woman in the book. Her brothers sent her off to school in St. Louis not in the back of wagons. She was in love with a scottish man named Harrison not Fergus. Harrison was a big strong lawyer who worked for her English father. The nannie who helped take her was killed at the very start. And it was her father's right hand man who did it. Mary Rose goes to visit her father because she wants to but comes home because they want to change her. Her and Harrison are happily married and she is preggers by the end of the book.
Some of the other major differences are that Cole does not die. And Adam is what holds the Clayborne family together. And they would never abandon each other! Also where was Mama Rose, she could have been squeezed in there somewhere!
The movie aside from the book the movie was just lacking. I dont recommend the movie at all. However the books (For the Roses, The Clayborne Brides, and Come the Spring) are WONDERFUL!!!

Nothing like the book!
If you've never read the Julie Garwood book on which this is based, you might find the movie just mediocre. If you've read "For the Roses", you will hate this movie. It is NOTHING like the book. Basically, they take the names and premise, and then twist it into something unrecognizeable.

Nothing like the book!
If you've never read the Julie Garwood book on which this is based, you might find the movie just mediocre. If you've read "For the Roses", you will hate this movie. It is NOTHING like the book. Basically, they take the names and premise, and then twist it into something unrecognizeable.