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Far from Heaven
Directed by
Todd Haynes
PG-13
2003
1h 47m
Drama
,
Romance
7.3
87%
79%
7.1
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In 1950s Connecticut, a flustered housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
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Cast of Far from Heaven
Julianne Moore
Cathy Whitaker
Dennis Quaid
Frank Whitaker
Dennis Haysbert
Raymond Deagan
Patricia Clarkson
Eleanor Fine
Viola Davis
Sybil
James Rebhorn
Dr. Bowman
Bette Henritze
Mrs. Leacock
Michael Gaston
Stan Fine
Ryan Ward
David Whitaker
Lindsay Andretta
Janice Whitaker
Jordan Nia Elizabeth
Sarah Deagan
Kyle Timothy Smith
Billy Hutchinson
Celia Weston
Mona Lauder
Barbara Garrick
Doreen
Olivia Birkelund
Nancy
Stevie Ray Dallimore
Dick Dawson
Mylika Davis
Esther
Jason Franklin
Photographer
Gregory Marlow
Reginald Carter
C.C. Loveheart
Marlene
Far from Heaven Ratings & Reviews
In These Times
Joshua Rothkopf
When a movie gets it all impeccably, heartbreakingly right, as does Todd Haynes' stunning Far from Heaven, some critics are tempted to gush deepest purple...I'll try to stay anchored to more sensible levels of bliss.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The actors move about this elaborate movie museum in a modified dream state, as if living in the present while rooted in the past. But the strategy doesn't work. It's an imitation of lifelessness.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
We are left wondering why, in any case, an imitation Sirk was needed, what appetite or interest it might fill. Even with its latter-day (modified) frankness, Far From Heaven is only thin glamour that lacks a tacit wry base.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
With tact and care, the movie digs into all the subjects that lay concealed below the surface when Max Ophuls and Douglas Sirk were filming their own melodramas in the nineteen-fifties.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
Quaid makes a decent man's anguish richly palpable. Moore makes us feel hidden frenzy with a cool and ultimately heartbreaking grace.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Haynes doesn't simply take a Norman Rockwell setting and release the hounds, either. He deals with these issues directly, but gently, as if his and Sirk's audiences were the same.
AV Club
Keith Phipps
Todd Haynes has crafted a feature-length homage to Sirk that succeeds both on its own terms and as the Sirk film that could never have been made in his own lifetime.
Associated Press
Christy Lemire
Haynes' loving homage to the Technicolor female-driven melodramas of the 1950s looks and feels so authentic, it will make you forget you are watching a new movie.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Sensitive, mature melodrama about sexuality in the 1950s.
Variety
David Rooney
An accomplished marriage of elaborate style and content.
Newsweek
David Ansen
It may be a movie about movies, but the artifice doesn't contradict the movie's plangent emotional realism. Moore's stunning, subtle performance as a woman trapped in the conventions of her time encapsulates the film's brave, double-edged beauty.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
Haynes is interested in exploring deeper issues than a little country-club gossip. And he makes sure that the pretty pictures don't lead us to forget that.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
This is a film made as if it was created and put together in the 1950's, and that aesthetic eschews the rapid fire patterns and short attention span platitudes of many modern films.
Premiere Magazine
Glenn Kenny
It's worth seeing for Quaid's multileveled, perfectly modulated, frankly amazing performance.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Peter Rainer
Achieves the same sentimentality as the Sirk films, and in much the same way.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
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.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The film's performances are thrilling.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Well worth seeing for its visual approximation of the Douglas Sirk-Ross Hunter 'women's pictures' of the 50's.
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
Well-written, nicely acted and beautifully shot and scored, the film works on several levels, openly questioning social mores while ensnaring the audience with its emotional pull.
Detroit News
Susan Stark
Stylish, affectionate and acutely knowing.
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