The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

An orange grove picture story, taken in Florida. The girl is boss of the grove. A stranger, coming in to see the grove, finds her at work, dressed in overalls. This meeting is followed, a few weeks later, by a love scene set up in a great tree with branches like immense arms. The boss later finds that the man is married. The man's sick wife is neglected; the disillusioned girl, the boss, is also despondent. Each is on the point of drowning herself; but the boss rescues the wife. The girls comfort each other. It is pretty well photographed in interesting backgrounds, but it is slight. A good, romantic filler. - The Moving Picture World, April 13, 1912