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11/23/02
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Far From Heaven (2002)
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Reviews Counted:184
Fresh:167
Rotten:17
Average Rating:8.2/10
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
Haynes has tapped into that most tragic of ideas -- forbidden love -- and mined some excellent melodrama from it.
11/23/02
It's a remarkably solid and subtly satirical tour de force.
11/22/02
The film oozes craft.
11/22/02
A beautiful and deeply affecting film that turns back society's clock with astonishing results.
11/22/02
Well worth seeing for its visual approximation of the Douglas Sirk–Ross Hunter 'women's pictures' of the 50's.
11/22/02
Top CriticDeftly navigates the line between high art and mainstream entertainment.
11/22/02
Thanks to Haynes' absolute control of the film's mood, and buoyed by three terrific performances, Far From Heaven actually pulls off this stylistic juggling act.
11/22/02
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.
11/22/02
Top CriticStylish, affectionate and acutely knowing.
11/22/02
Top CriticIt's pretty solid all the way around, from the handsome production values to the across-the-board excellent performances.
11/22/02
A handsome tribute to an era as quaintly distant as tail-fin Chevrolets and A-bomb scares.
11/22/02
Haynes' 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 CriticA polite, authentic Smithsonian exhibit on deception and broken marriages.
11/22/02
One of the best films of 2002.
11/22/02
With the location of a gay bar, Haynes has put together one of the great "going into a gay bar" scenes in all filmdom,
11/21/02
Moore's performance is nothing less than breathtaking.
11/21/02
From living room furniture to chain smoking at a cocktail party, Haynes gives the film the verisimilitude of a time and place where reflex, ritual and function disguised what people really thought and felt.
11/21/02
Sirk would be proud.
11/21/02
..an entertaining curiosity, especially for film buffs, but a cinematic cul-de-sac on its own terms.
11/21/02
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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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