Far From Heaven

Far From Heaven (2002)

  • 89% of critics liked it
    (190 reviews)

  • 77% of users liked it
    (21,266 ratings)

Maverick director Todd Haynes embraces the look and feel of classic Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s in this period drama. Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore) and her husband, Frank (Dennis Quaid), are a seemingly perfect couple; living in a handsome suburban neighborhood in Hartford, CT, in 1957,… More

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PG-13, 1 hr. 48 min.
Directed By
Todd Haynes
Written By
Todd Haynes
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Apr 1, 2003 Wide
On DVD
Apr 1, 2003
USA Films

Critic Reviews

  • David Rooney, Variety

    An accomplished marriage of elaborate style and content.

  • Peter Rainer, New York Magazine

    Achieves the same sentimentality as the Sirk films, and in much the same way.

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    Though less obviously a tour de force than many flashier recent art films, such as Alexander Sokurov's one-take feature Russian Ark, it's no less impressive as a technical achievement.

  • Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee

    The film oozes craft.

  • Andrew Sarris, New York Observer

    Well worth seeing for its visual approximation of the Douglas Sirk-Ross Hunter 'women's pictures' of the 50's.

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  • EightThirty .


    21/08/2010 (TELEVISION) I had nothing better to do and happened to catch this on TV. Good thing I did, I really got soaked into it and began to be concerned while the story continued to unleash the darkness. It's around the 1950's, so the whole interracial thing is a… More

  • Jeremy S


    Far From Heaven is a beautiful and fascinating story of Julian Morre as a 50s 'perfect world' suburban housewife watching her marriage fall apart and falling in love with her gardener. This film captures the mood and style of the 50's era, conservative, charming, niaive… More

  • Lorenzo v


    <i>"What imprisons desires of the heart?"</i> In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world. <center><font size=+2 face="Century… More

  • Dan S


    A very heartfelt, original look on some very controversial issues that seem completely out of place for the simplistic culture of the 1950's. This film surprised me, it tackles a lot of topics, and it features many twists that I didn't see coming. Not only does this… More

  • Mason W


    Very good movie that is worth watching. Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid shine in this dramatic story of a seemingly perfect family in 1950's CT. Even a "picture perfect" family is open to all the same issues that everyonr faces and more.

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