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A 'Wild Rose' Grows In Glasgow, With Dreams Of Getting Transplanted

Rose-Lynn (Jessie Buckley) is a scrappy Glaswegian single mom, fresh out of prison, who chases Nashville dreams in this beguiling, emotionally resonant film.
Fresh out of prison, a Scottish single mother heads to Nashville to pursue her dream of country music stardom in <em>Wild Rose. </em>

The rising Irish actress Jessie Buckley, who plays an aspiring Scottish country singer in the beguiling new film , is small and scrappy with hot brown eyes and a mane of chestnut hair tossed into a rough ponytail. Buckley has bags of pugnacious charisma and a soaring, throaty singing voice tempered with enough vulnerability to make us want to hold her close even as the screw-up she offers us drives everyone in her orbit

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