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Name: Far From Heaven
Released: 2002-11-8
Cast: Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson, Michael Gaston

Far From Heaven

PG-13
1h 47m
2002

87%

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Julianne Moore (Hannibal, Boogie Nights) and Dennis Quaid (The Rookie, Frequency) star in this seductive story of a seemingly perfect family, and the forbidden desires that threaten to tear them apart. Cathy Whitaker (Moore) has it all - a lovely home, two wonderful children and a handsome husband (Quaid), who is successfully climbing the corporate ladder. But Cathy's idyllic existence is just an illusion, and she is eventually forced to choose between living a lie or following her heart. Academy Award® nominee Moore "is a vision," declared Rex Reed, and he called Quaid's performance "the best of his career," in this stunning drama hailed by the New York Post as "one of the year's best."

Director:

Todd Haynes

Producer:

Allen Jody

Writer:

Todd Haynes

Cast:

Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson, Michael Gaston

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

87%

Critics Consensus: An exquisitely designed and performed melodrama, Far From Heaven earns its viewers' tears with sincerity and intelligence.

Reviews

A Good Movie To Watch

Farah Cheded

It’s a ballsy move, molding your film so closely to a peerless classic, but Todd Haynes transcends thin pastiche to be a genuinely great film of its own.

August 12, 2023

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Noah Berlatsky

In meticulously refashioning Sirk’s surfaces, Haynes isn’t revealing what Sirk hid. He’s just showing that what we saw is still what we see.

This is a masterpiece of a film that 20 years post release still looks and feels like an important piece of cinema.

July 19, 2022

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David Walsh

Far From Heaven leaves American life and society essentially untouched. The film is simply not alive to the enormous social contradictions existing under the surface in the 1950s.

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.

March 16, 2020

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