| Genre: | Drama |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Rating: | R |
| Length: | 116mins |
| Country: | USA |
| Cast: | Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson, Jessica Biel, J. Kenneth Campbell, Christine Dunford, Steven Flynn, Dewey Weber, Tom Wood, & Vanessa Zima |
| Credits: | Written and directed by Victor Nunez. Co-produced by Sam Gowan and Peter Saraf. Released by Orion/MEG |
| Awards: | Golden Globes
Best Actor (drama): Peter Fonda |
Synopsis
The great suprise at this year's Sundance Film Festival was Peter Fonda's quietly astonishing performance in "Ulee's Gold." It would be accurate but barely adequate to call this the finest work of Mr. Fonda's career. Lionized nearly 30 years ago as the epitome of hip complacency, then dormant for a long while, he emerges here as a figure of unexpected stature. This film calls for deep reserves of backbone from its terse hero, and Mr. Fonda supplies them with supreme dignity and grace.
"Ulee's Gold," which is also the best work of its director, Victor Nunez, is beautiful and heartfelt, and oasis of humanity in a season of furious hyperbole. Simple almost to a fault and yet effortlessly wrenching, it shows nothing more than the spiritual reawakening of a hard-bitten loner. Yet the star and filmmaker make this story resonate in moving, meaningful ways. - By Janet Maslin, printed by the Screening Room
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