Rambling Rose is a 1991 American dramatic film directed by Martha Coolidge and written by Calder Willingham (based on the 1972 novel of the same name).

However, Rose is eventually arrested when some of her men begin brawling in a bar over her, and she bites the finger of a policeman.

The attending doctor tells them that Rose has too strong a basic constitution to have had the desperately poor country background she has asserted.

Rose is treated for her cyst and returns home where she eventually marries the policeman whose finger she bit.

Returning to the 1971 reflection, Buddy reveals that Rose married three more times and was eventually happy with and faithful to her last husband with whom she lived for 25 years.

When Buddy begins crying Mr. Hillyer tells him that Rose is a person who will never really die as she will live on forever in their hearts.

On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 100% approval rating, based on 20 reviews, with the critics consensus calling it "a touching, bittersweet, and wonderfully-acted film.

"[8] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone praised the storytelling and performances, summarizing the film as "beauty.

[12] He wrote, "No young actress today can play emotionally hungry postadolescents with such purity and yearning.