Savage Grace (2008)
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Reviews Counted:86
Fresh:34
Rotten:52
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: Though visually compelling, the lamentable characters in Savage Grace make for difficult viewing.
Theatrical Release:May 28, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $243,055
Synopsis: Like his landmark debut SWOON, Tom Kalin's long-awaited follow-up is based on a shocking true story. This time around, Kalin uses the celebrated nonfiction book by Natalie Robins and Steven M.L.... [More]
Starring: Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane, Eddie Redmayne, Elena Anaya
Director: Tom Kalin
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Reviews for Savage Grace
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Superficial dysfunctional story on the rich. Full Review |
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The most shocking thing about Savage Grace is its flatness Full Review |
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 4/5 |
A sick-room torpor hangs heavily about this masterfully controlled, elegantly composed movie by Tom Kalin. Full Review |
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C- |
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2/5 |
Provocative but frustratingly shallow. Full Review |
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4/5 |
The subject matter could be considered shocking and the film is difficult to watch at times; the director, Tom Kalin, isn't pulling his punches, but he refrains from giving any of the material the showy Hollywood treatment. Full Review |
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3/4 |
While the pace occasionally flags and there are times when we wonder where Kalin is leading us, he maintains a pervasive sense of dread and unease throughout that makes the chilling climax seem both shocking and inevitable. Full Review |
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2/5 |
This tale of class differences, social climbing, illicit affairs, incest and murder creates an emotional wall between the characters and the audience. Full Review |
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For all the Baekalands’ outré behavior, the movie is peculiarly timid at times. Full Review |
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1/4 |
A grotesque waste of time about terrible people I'd rather not have known. Full Review |
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2/4 |
The performance is so oversized that, just as Barbara cowed her husband and son into submission, the other actors seem to tiptoe around Moore. Full Review |
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2/5 |
...more savagery than grace... Full Review |
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2/5 |
Savage Grace is a movie that badly wants to shock you. The only thing that might raise an eyebrow here, however, is the shocking rate at which everyone lights up a cigarette every five minutes. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Ultimately, I felt more sorry for Moore - giving her all to a skeezy, tabloid psychodrama - than for her self-absorbed character. Full Review |
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B+ |
An appallingly handsome and creepy film entirely suiting the subject matter and repellent and alluring in equal measure. If you relish dishy tales of the depraved rich, it's like Thanksgiving in a movie. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Director Tom Kalin, who's making his second feature after 1992's Swoon, tells the real-life story of the Baekeland family in a subdued whisper, like a servant muttering backstairs about a rich master's failings. Full Review |
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2/5 |
A film as harsh, brittle and unbalanced as its characters. Full Review |
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The film boasts another sensational performance by Moore and a welcome return to feature directing by Kalin. Full Review |
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Kalin and Moore have done such a fine job creating this monster, you'll be inclined to forgive them for never quite figuring out what to do with her. Full Review |
CommentLatest News for Savage Grace
January 04, 2009:
Be forewarned, watching this movie about the frustrated, bored to tears existence of the elite, can be contagious. A depressing and meaningless, smutty glimpse into the depraved family lives of stuffy designer couch potatoes. 
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January 03, 2009:
Be forewarned, watching this movie about the frustrated, bored to tears existence of the elite, can be contagious. A depressing and meaningless, smutty glimpse into the depraved family lives of stuffy designer couch potatoes.
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January 03, 2009:
ActorsAndCrew Magazine: Be forewarned, watching this movie about the frustrated, bored to tears existence of the elite, can be contagious. A depressing and meaningless, smutty glimpse into the depraved family lives of stuffy designer couch potatoes."
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June 01, 2008:
Morose melodrama revisits tragedies visited upon dysfunctional family blessed with Bakelite plastics fortune.
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