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Far From Heaven (2002)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:34
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.4/10
Consensus: An exquisitely designed and performed melodrama, Far From Heaven earns its viewers' tears with sincerity and intelligence.
Theatrical Release:Nov 8, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $15,776,481
Synopsis: The model marriage of Frank (Dennis Quaid) and Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore) in 1950s Hartford is depicted in television ads, and a magazine features photographs of Cathy as a model homemaker... [More]
Starring: Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson
Director: Todd Haynes
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Reviews for Far From Heaven
Top CriticAchieves the same sentimentality as the Sirk films, and in much the same way.
01/16/03
Top CriticThough 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.
11/29/02
Top CriticWell worth seeing for its visual approximation of the Douglas Sirk–Ross Hunter 'women's pictures' of the 50's.
11/22/02
Top CriticWell-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.
11/22/02
Top CriticStylish, affectionate and acutely knowing.
11/22/02
Top CriticHaynes' greatest accomplishment, beyond his impeccable craftsmanship and his connection with his actors, is in the way he respects the facade while tearing it away.
11/22/02
Top CriticIf 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.
11/15/02
Top CriticIt's a film that's loving toward all concerned, even when they cause each other pain. And it is overwhelmingly, refreshingly sincere even while being revisionist.
11/15/02
Top CriticWhat Moore does on-screen here is absolutely beguiling.
11/15/02
Top CriticA movie that needs hankies.
11/15/02
Top CriticA richly imagined and admirably mature work from a gifted director who definitely has something on his mind.
11/15/02
Top CriticThe movie has the sense of being embalmed, or pickled.
11/15/02
Top CriticBecause the film deliberately lacks irony, it has a genuine dramatic impact; it plays like a powerful 1957 drama we've somehow never seen before.
11/15/02
Top CriticHits your heart, tickles your head and gives a little extra bonus to those of us who salivate over cinematography and set design.
11/14/02
Top CriticThe deep, dark sadness of Haynes' movie casts a beautiful, powerful spell.
11/14/02
Top CriticThis imitation of life comes tantalizingly close to greatness, then settles for being smart without much heart.
11/14/02
Top CriticMoore is absolutely brilliant in this film.
11/14/02
Top CriticBy surrounding us with hyper-artificiality, Haynes makes us see familiar issues, like racism and homophobia, in a fresh way.
11/14/02
Top CriticThis film is a triumph of art direction and acting, with Moore, Quaid and Haysbert giving performances that feel authentic to the time even as they explore subjects and feelings that were at best implied in movies of that period.
11/11/02
Top CriticLatest News for Far From Heaven
July 18, 2007:
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Celebrated director Todd Haynes has taken on a rather ... experimental project this time around. He'll have seven different actors playing different "aspects" of songwriter Bob... More...
May 08, 2003:
As the rebel with a cause, Julianne Moore incomparably embodies an exemplary housewife who nearly disintegrates as the values she once treasured become farcical, empty tenets that restrict her happiness instead of safeguarding it. 
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