The best film of 2002 comes right out of the ‘50s...a rich and radiant re-creation of the bittersweet tales told by the long-ago likes of director Douglas Sirk and (Cleveland’s own) producer Ross Hunter.
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11/20/02
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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
It's all about surface, or more precisely, the damage that surface does.
11/20/02
With Julianne Moore, the quality you can always count on is intelligence as she delivers a raw, riveting performance, while Dennis Quaid captures the insecurity and pain inherent in the husband.
11/19/02
Deliberately and devotedly constructed, Far from Heaven is too picture postcard perfect, too neat and new pin-like, too obviously a recreation to resonate.
11/19/02
As a pure exercise in recreation, Far From Heaven will astound you, and I would recommend it purely as a feast for the eyes.
11/18/02
Made with a lot of love -- love for Sirk, love for detail, and love for the power of the movies.
11/18/02
Consistently beautiful to look at and thematically daring, Far From Heaven remains unlike any other film you are sure to see this year.
11/16/02
It's one of the best films of the year!
11/16/02
Nostalgia is often fun, seldom accurate, and rarely done cinematically as well as it is here.
11/16/02
The shallow can still view the 50s as 'Happy Days,' but more thoughtful people will remember them as Haynes visualizes
11/16/02
An unnerving, entertaining and brilliant piece of film criticism that's not dry or academic.
11/15/02
A ravishingly beautiful film.
11/15/02
If 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 CriticThe movie hums along with a strange hypnotic power. But the performances can be tentative.
11/15/02
No matter how stylized the surroundings ... Haynes treats his characters with a tenderness and sympathy that is anything but sarcastic.
11/15/02
Amazingly, Far From Heaven would have been one of the great American films of the '50s; it is certainly the finest American melodrama of our time.
11/15/02
It'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
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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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