All Aboard: Rosie's Family Cruise
by Shari Cookson
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Actor: Judy Gold, Kelli O'Donnell, Megan Jacoby, Pam Elliott, Rosie O'DonnellDirector: Shari Cookson
Producer: Kelli O'Donnell
Producer: Rosie O'Donnell
Cinematographer: Beth Wichterich
Cinematographer: Maryse Alberti
Cinematographer: Sandra Chandler
Producer: Shari Cookson
Producer: Barbara Bartenes-Wulff
Producer: Charlton McMillan
Producer: Gary Ponticiello
Producer: Jill M. Soble
Producer: John Hoffman
Producer: Sheila Nevins
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-13
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Hbo Home Video
DVD Reviews of All Aboard: Rosie's Family Cruise
DVD Review: All Aboard!! I wanna go!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I laughed, I cried, what more can you say? Excellent HBO documentary! Rosie, the families, the children....it is a wonderful glimpse into what gay familes experience.DVD Review: All Aboard Rosie
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the single most emotional bio Ive seen. I was in tears as the lovely familys were boarding the Cruise ship. Rosie offers an insightfull look into the wonderfull healthy families emersed in love ,commitment and a genuine awareness to all who have any doubts to uncontitional love and the many benifits it offers all children in the system who would be still there without these generous souls. I urge each and everyone to watch this video and show all your friends and lets be committed to teaching everyone that unconditional love comes in all shapes,colors and forms. Joanie BighamDVD Review: A DVD about Families
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this movie on HBO a few years ago and absolutely fell in love with it. I loved it so much, 2 years later my family and I went on the Norwegian Dawn for a Caribbean vacation. If you're a parent, have ever been on vacation with your family, or need to discuss the hardships of family life this is a fantastic movie! DVD Review: All Aboard: Rosie's Family Cruise
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great documentary about the R Family Cruise. This video is very touching and will open a lot of eyes and hearts to these families and couples.DVD Review: Family Cruising
Summary: 5 Stars
All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise
Family Cruising
Amos Lassen
"All Aboard!' is a documentary about the maiden cruise of Rosie and Kelli O'Donnell's R Family Vacations which set sail on July 11, 2004 and took 500 families from New York to the Bahamas. If you have any questions about the definition of gay family, this is the film that will explain it all. The movie shows the various aspects of the gay community and above all gave a voice to the gay family. The film attempts to prove that there is no difference between gays and lesbians with families than heterosexuals with families. Shari Cookson, who directed this film, shows the material that people in the same social status basically behave the same and when gays and lesbians who spend vacations with their families relax just like everyone else.
We see caring couples who are in love with their partners and their children and the move shows that families are to be made up of love. Rosie O'Donnell who is responsible for this entire undertaking plays a prominent role. She managed to bring all kinds of people together and together everyone has a wonderful experience.
People on the cruise came to the realization that their sexuality was only a small part of who they are--rather they are mothers and fathers, members of a community, partners. It is a simply uplifting movie to watch as the participants talk about their lives and their loves. Not many films have looked at the positive side and the normalcy of the gay family and the difficulties in starting a family and keeping it going. The larger population, because of its ignorance on the issue, has had a hard time accepting the idea of the gay family. "All Aboard!" shows the truth and sensitivity and realism of what these families go through. The film inspires and it educates. It obviously is a good film in that it received three Primetime Emmy nominations.
Description of All Aboard: Rosie's Family Cruise
One cruise. Five hundred families. Thousands of memories. This feature-length documentary brings viewers onboard the Norwegian Dawn cruise ship for a joyous voyage, in which celebrity superstar Rosie O?Donnell and her family joined hundreds of other gay, lesbian, bisexual and straight families on a weeklong trip from New York City to the Bahamas and back. With a bold stroke only Rosie could make, a joyous new community was born in this judgment-free setting, as passengers celebrated their freedom and made a positive, progressive statement about what ?family? means today.All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise demonstrates that gay families can be just as loving, sharing, exasperating, and embarrassing as heterosexual ones. A documentary of the Atlantic Ocean cruise sponsored by Rosie O'Donnell, All Aboard! features rich, compelling interviews with gay couples and their children, with brief musical numbers (some sweet, some cloying, some campy) and standup comedy sprinkled here and there. The parents include football players, hairdressers, and police officers, while the kids range from infants to rambunctious teenagers. While part of the point of the documentary is that these families are as typical as families with male and female parents, it's astonishing how self-possessed and open these teenagers are; having faced prejudice all of their lives, they've had to define themselves in ways most teens take for granted--and the result is a decidedly atypical poise and perception. But perhaps the most striking moment of the documentary comes at the very beginning: As the families come on board for the cruise and find themselves in an environment without judgment, the relief on their faces is palpable. All Aboard! is deceptively simple; it seems to unfold without shape, but by the end it's covered an impressive array of topics, both personal and political, without ever feeling preachy or forced. --Bret Fetzer
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