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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 and citizen. Yet, behind the curtains of their dream home, Cathy and Frank hide scandalous secrets. Frank has been masquerading his .. Read more

Starring	Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson
Director	Todd Haynes
Genres	Drama, Gay/Lesbian

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- Elegantly designed and shot and acted, and made in the style of a Douglas Sirk melodrama, this subverts the form by bringing to the fore what would have been the subtext of the movie in the 1950s; it is undeniably clever, but too often feels like an exerc
- 32700
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:43
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  - 2
  Quite close to heaven actually!
  
  Classy, wonderfully shot film, I really enjoyed it and it made me think. The themes of the trapped woman, suppressed sexuality and inter racial relationships ... read more »
  
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  - Rob
  - Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
  - 18 Aug 2004 at 13:40
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- - 0
  - 0
  Everything's Darling..... Everything's Pink !!!
  
  If I didn't know better, I would have thought 'Far From Heaven' actually was a 1950's film, it is that well made and acted !!!
  
  A ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - 14 May 2012 at 16:20
- - 0
  - 0
  Full 5 stars
  
  I was surprised I got this one so quick - it was literally my next dvd after I'd placed it on the list - How can nobody not want to watch this film???? ... read more »
  
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- - ash53
  - 53 reviews
  - newbury
  - 05 Oct 2011 at 09:28
- - 1
  - 0
  PAINT, THE, WHOLE, WORLD, WITH, A . . . RAINBOW!
  
  This achieves exactly what it sets out to do, i.e. creates a contemporary 50's Hollywoodland film. The stand out feature is the AMAZING colouring of the ... read more »
  
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- - Norman Barry
  - Surrey, England.
  - 29 Jul 2011 at 22:57
- - 1
  - 0
  PAINT, THE, WHOLE, WORLD, WITH, A . . . RAINBOW!
  
  This achieves exactly what it sets out to do, i.e. creates a contemporary 50's Hollywoodland film. The stand out feature is the AMAZING colouring of the ... read more »
  
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- - Norman Barry
  - Surrey, England.
  - 29 Jul 2011 at 22:56
- - 1
  - 0
  PAINT, THE, WHOLE, WORLD, WITH, A . . . RAINBOW!
  
  This achieves exactly what it sets out to do, i.e. creates a contemporary 50's Hollywoodland film. The stand out feature is the AMAZING colouring of the ... read more »
  
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- - Norman Barry
  - Surrey, England.
  - 29 Jul 2011 at 22:55
- - 0
  - 0
  Heard it was good - it isn't.
  
  This film seemed more like a made for TV movie than one for cinema release. I read that it had been oscar nominated but I've no idea for what reason. ... read more »
  
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- - StefGB
  - 4 reviews
  - Leicester
  - 19 Jul 2011 at 18:25
- - 0
  - 0
  A Fifties Melodrama
  
  The repressed society of 50s America, the unequal relationship between the sexes, racial and homophobic prejudice - these are the themes of the film. ... read more »
  
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- 1010309
- - insomniac
  - 60 reviews
  - Malvern
  - 27 Jun 2011 at 13:08
- - 0
  - 0
  Melodrama with an edge
  
  As I watched this film I couldn't help compare it to Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows, both visually (there's no mistaking the comparisons; the... read more »
  
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- - antiquated
  - 6 reviews
  - Oxford, England
  - 19 Jun 2011 at 13:30
- - 0
  - 0
  Looks pretty, classy actors but...
  
  ...I found it to be predictable and cliched. The issues it covers about prejudice in 1950s America are important but it didn't set me alight.
  
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- - a customer
  - Windsor
  - 07 Feb 2011 at 20:05
- - 6
  - 0
  A truly great film and a modern classic of the highest order
  
  David Lynch demonstrated so darkly in Blue Velvet that there are disturbing and evil forces behind the ubiquitous white picket fences of middle-class America. ... read more »
  
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  - Daniel Pollard
  - Manchester, England
  - 11 Nov 2010 at 12:39
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- - 25
  - 2
  Quite close to heaven actually!
  
  Classy, wonderfully shot film, I really enjoyed it and it made me think. The themes of the trapped woman, suppressed sexuality and inter racial relationships ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 15153
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Rob
  - Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
  - 18 Aug 2004 at 13:40
- - 12
  - 0
  A truly sumptuous film
  
  Reviving unfashionable genres seems to be all the rage at the moment, and if this is what harking back to days gone by produces then long may it continue. Cathy... read more »
  
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- - Chickenmaster
  - Newcastle upon Tyne
  - 02 Nov 2003 at 18:12
- - 10
  - 1
  Classy style over substance
  
  I didn’t remember ordering this film and almost put it back in the post without watching. I didn’t know anything about it and it seemed a little, ... read more »
  
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- - PeterSays
  - 105 reviews
  - Romsey
  - 07 May 2007 at 08:54
- - 10
  - 2
  Classy style over substance
  
  I didn't remember ordering this film and almost put it back in the post without watching. I didn't know anything about it and it seemed a little, well... read more »
  
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- - PeterSays
  - 105 reviews
  - Romsey
  - 07 May 2007 at 08:46
- - 6
  - 0
  Not bad . . .
  
  . . . but curiously unfulfilling. The whole extent of the plot is summed up by the short description that is written on the DVD case: 'A perfect 50's ... read more »
  
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- - Mr B
  - Brizzle
  - 21 Feb 2006 at 12:02
- - 6
  - 0
  A skillfull craft
  
  Todd Haynes beautiful homage to Douglas Sirk's saturated melodramas reminds us that filmmaking is a craft. A process which actually can, and should, use all... read more »
  
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- - lars
  - London
  - 06 Feb 2004 at 19:54
- - 6
  - 0
  A truly great film and a modern classic of the highest order
  
  David Lynch demonstrated so darkly in Blue Velvet that there are disturbing and evil forces behind the ubiquitous white picket fences of middle-class America. ... read more »
  
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- 938835
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  - Daniel Pollard
  - Manchester, England
  - 11 Nov 2010 at 12:39
- - 7
  - 4
  Hmm...
  
  I'm not convinced. Sure, it is a nicely shot homage to 50's melodrama and everything... but give me Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life (1956) or Lana ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Hollywood CA, 1959
  - 05 Mar 2004 at 01:52
- - 6
  - 3
  Far from brilliant
  
  Ok, I admit that I wasn't in the best mood when I watched this film, but the best kind of films should be able to overcome that.
  
  The main thing ... read more »
  
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- - esthersmile
  - worcs
  - 06 Dec 2003 at 11:52
- - 5
  - 0
  Dull
  
  This film appears to be social criticsim. It's just juvenile nonsense.A ridiculously cliched idea (perfect housewife's life isn't perfect) is used ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Pembroke
  - 28 Apr 2008 at 01:46

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Critic's review
- Elegantly designed and shot and acted, and made in the style of a Douglas Sirk melodrama, this subverts the form by bringing to the fore what would have been the subtext of the movie in the 1950s; it is undeniably clever, but too often feels like an exerc
- 32700
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:43

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- Far From Heaven
  
  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 and citizen. Yet, behind the curtains of their dream home, Cathy and Frank hide scandalous secrets. Frank ...