A classic and beautiful film for those who love romantic stories
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10/18/08
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
93 %
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Reviews Counted: 27
Fresh: 25
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Runtime: 89 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: In ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, Douglas Sirk's haunting suburban morality play, Jane Wyman plays Cary Scott, a wealthy middle-aged widow in love with a younger man considered by those around her to be far below her social standing. Her torrid... [More]
Starring: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel
Director: Douglas Sirk
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Reviews for All That Heaven Allows
Romance novel in narrative this transcends its genre with visual depth and perceptive socio-cultural insights.
10/16/07
Hudson is handsome and somewhat wooden. Laconic of speech, and imbued with an angel's patience and understanding, it's at times hard to understand his passion for the widow, what with pretty girls just spoilingfor his attention.
10/16/07
Top Critic 'Time, if anything, will vindicate Douglas Sirk,' wrote Andrew Sarris in 1968. He was right.
05/26/06
Solid and sensible drama plainly had to give way to outright emotional bulldozing and a paving of easy clichés.
03/25/06
Top Critic Beneath the stunningly lovely visuals -- all expressionist colours, reflections, and frames-within-frames, used to produce a precise symbolism -- lies a kernel of terrifying despair
02/09/06
When Carey (Jane Wyman) first visits the Andersons, friends of Ron (Rock Hudson), Thoreau's Walden is placed on the table. She then reads a passage in which he describes the "mass of men living lives of quiet desperation," a summation of her life.
02/07/06
A masterpiece (1955) by one of the most inventive and recondite directors ever to work in Hollywood, Douglas Sirk.
09/04/04
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The rich visual texture, using glorious Technicolor, and a soaring emotional score lend what is essentially a thin story a kind of epic tension.
10/04/03
The enjoyability of All That Heaven Allows is hampered by the fact that there's no real plot here.
04/13/03
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