Bette Henritze, Celia Weston, Dennis Haysbert
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
DVD Release Date: April 1, 2003
Stats: 932 reviews
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In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.REVIEW
Filmmaker Todd Haynes' valentine to 195...( read more)
Moore did a wonderful job playing a 1950s housewife. I loved the friendship between her character and her gardener, even though it was short-lived.
The beginning of this movie was rather boring. I felt I was watching a 'Leave It to Beaver' episode. I do give kudos for the realistic 1950's decor.
Julianne Moore's character was too prim and proper to be interesting.
The movie got a little more interesting mid-way. It wa...( read more)
It was about this point in time where all the Julianne Moore movies started to look similar.
A marvellous film tackling such issues as racism and homophobia in the 1950's. I don't know what to say about Julianne Moore words cant describe her acting in this film, Moore plays a 1950's housewife whose world is turned upside down with the discovery of her husbands(brilliantl...( read more)
Wow! What to say about this film? It was very unique, and beautifully awesome. The imagry throughout the movie is stunning! The acting, lighting, music and just everything about this movie works. It is a pleasure to view, and the story! Oh the story...it's so full of honest...( read more)
(2003 Director: Todd Haynes) Director Todd Haynes handles a delicate subject that never used to appear on screen: homosexuality or bisexuality. Very successful top appliance salesman Dennis Quaid leads a double life. Successful businessman and family man stars to rock the boa...( read more)
So I was mad while watching this film that reminds us of how stupid racism was a few decades before. Let's think it was completely overcome, but that would be not entirely true. I would also like to think homosexuality is seen different than it was portrayed in the film, but it s...( read more)
Somehwat dissapointed me, I found the acting to be rather good, the tone and some of the issues presented were good but the film failed to really move me.
If it's ultimately a failure -- and I think it is -- it's still worth seeing, because it's the most ambitious and magnificent failure in recent memory. full review
Because the film deliberately lacks irony, it has a genuine dramatic impact; it plays like a powerful 1957 drama we've somehow never seen before. full review
It's so intimate, accessible, and passionate that it makes every other current movie seem anemic. It makes even Sirk seem anemic. full review
Moore, who has a particular genius for communicating compassionate, if not fully conscious characters, makes the pathos believable. full review
It rediscovers the aching, desiring humanity in a genre -- and a period -- too often subjected to easy parody or ironic appropriation. In a word, it's divine. full review
Haynes makes you drunk on movies again, on raw emotion delivered without the cushion of irony. full review
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