While Jack fights against developers who wish to build in the area, he also craves more contact with other people. The first moments of The Ballad of Jack and Rose are simultaneously serene and odious, and the spell is unveiled both slowly and unmistakably. The highest position it reached was during its second week of release, grossing $135,100, and the lowest position it reached was at its last week of release, grossing $406. Jack has sheltered Rose from the influences of the outside world, but Jack has a heart condition (and a past heart attack) that has him asking his part-time girlfriend Kathleen to move in (bringing her two teenage sons Thaddius and Rodney with her). Yet more lasting than its somewhat slushy depiction of female maturation is The Ballad of Jack and Rose’s recognition that idealism, no matter how noble or … A shocked Jack confronts Rose in disbelief, but the two end up giggling … Ending your film with "mystery" when its not a thriller (Inception) is just lazy. Ending: Jack lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose. Rose's mother abandoned them when Rose was five. Jack Slavin is an environmentalist with a heart condition who lives with his daughter, Rose, on an isolated island. Jack has sheltered Rose from the influences of the outside world, but Jack has a heart condition (and a past heart attack) that has him asking his part-time girlfriend Kathleen to move in (bringing her two teenage sons Thaddius and Rodney with her). Jack has passed to Rose a sense of ecological preservation, placing them at odds with Marty Rance, who is building a housing complex on the island on a wetlands. At Jack's invitation, the new family unit arrives on Jack and Rose's doorstep, throwing all their previous 18 years of unhurried sublimity into a deep hole of desperation and transformation. Its widest release was 74 … Also, it gives closure to the Jason Lee story. The Ballad of Jack and Rose premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2005; it was later given a limited theatrical release on March 23, 2005, grossing $59,459 in its opening weekend, in four theaters. Ending: Jack lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose. When he invites his girlfriend, Kathleen, and her sons, Rodney and Thaddius, to move in, Rose is upset. Rodney refuses, instead persuading her to let him give her a dramatic haircut, after which Rose calmly takes her father's shotgun and mis/fires it into Jack and Kathleen's bedroom as they sleep. It's his/her story, and that's where Rose ended up. There was a clear direction and sometimes its not up to the audience to choose what happens to the characters, but the writer.