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Far From Heaven (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 182
Fresh: 165
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 and citizen. Yet, behind the curtains of... [More]
Starring: Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson
Director: Todd Haynes
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Reviews for Far From Heaven
Top Critic An obsessive triumph of design and tribute, beautifully acted ... but this stuff was somehow more fun in the '50s.
02/03/08
Exultant in both its artifice and its cruel honesty, it's a movie Sirk would make today - and, as such, it's quite brilliant.
01/26/06
The film confronts the era’s intolerance with regard to gender and race relations, but it should be noted that Haynes films without a trace of irony. The actors offer similarly genuine performances.
12/06/05
The best reason to see Far from Heaven is to watch Julianne Moore give one of her finest performances.
12/06/04
An ignorant, false, bigoted, boring, pretentious film that could have been made by Eisenstein in the Kremlin under Joseph Stalin in 1938.
10/07/04
It's a rare thing when a movie makes you react emotionally to the repressive taboos of a past decade while...provoking you to reconsider the attitudes of present society.
06/23/04
A recriação do estilo de Douglas Sirk é interessante, mas soa como mero artifício de Haynes. Já a subtrama envolvendo Quaid (e a bela atuação deste) engrandecem o filme.
06/07/04
An arid, faux-antique melodrama done in the style of 1950s director Douglas Sirk....Lacks a heart, or at least one with a measurable pulse.
02/16/04
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02/01/04
It would have been easy for Haynes to turn the film into a campy spoof of repressed 1950s culture, and it's to his great credit that he doesn't take the easy way out.
09/06/03
Not only one of the finest American films of last year but one that repudiates all the attempts by conservative America to turn back the clock to a desperate and unhappy past.
07/07/03
Lejos del paraíso es al mismo tiempo una fiesta para los ojos y oídos y un movilizador cuadro de personajes enfrentados a sus propios deseos, miedos y prejuicios.
06/30/03
Next time, here’s hoping Todd Haynes remembers the difference between a feather and a sledgehammer.
06/26/03
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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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