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Release Date: Nov 8, 2002
Running Time: 107 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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It is the fall of 1957. The Whitakers, the very picture of a suburban family, make their home in Hartford, Connecticut. Their daily existences are characterized by carefully observed family etiquette, social events, and an overall desire to keep up with the Joneses. Cathy Whitaker is the homemaker, wife and mother. Frank Whitaker is the breadwinner, husband and father.Together they have the perfect '50s life: healthy kids and social prominence. Then one night, Cathy discovers her husband's secret life and her tidy, insular world starts spinning out of control. Fearing the consequences of revealing her pain and confusion to anyone in her own social circle, she finds unexpected comfort and friendship with her African-American gardener, Raymond Deagan. Cathy's interactions with Raymond; her best friend Eleanor Fine; and her maid, Sybil, reflects the upheaval in her life. Cathy is faced with choices that spur gossip within the community, and change several lives forever.
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Mrs Leacock
Stan Fine
David Whitaker
Janice Whitaker
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A 1950s housewife with a seemingly perfect life sees her orderly world slowly crumble when her husband goes astray and she becomes increasingly attracted to a black man. Story Far From Heaven pays homage to the 1950s director Douglas Sirk (Imitation of Life) by defining the women and men of that era and conjuring up characters whose squeaky-clean superficiality hides secret wants and desires simmering underneath. As the story unfolds, Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore) lives her life just about as… 
October 23, 2002
Why bother with a movie about a girly-swirly Connecticut housewife, circa 1957? Because Far From Heaven is a classic of its kind. Because Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid give the performances of their careers. And because writer-director Todd Haynes, the indie rebel who guided Moore through the stunning 1995 AIDS parable Safe, raises the chick flick to the level of art. I should mention that Far From Heaven is also riveting, rapturous fun. Talk about movie heaven -- this is it. Haynes treats…
March 25, 2003
Last year's best chick flick (forget The Hours) gets the A treatment on a DVD capturing the burnished beauty that camera wiz Ed Lachman gives this tale of a 1950s housewife (Julianne Moore) with a gay husband (Dennis Quaid). Director Todd Haynes conjures emotional truth out of soap opera. Here's that rare time when the DVD extras -- from a breakdown of the cocktail-party scene to no-bull talk from Haynes, Moore, Lachman and composer Elmer Bernstein, whose score was surely 2002's best…
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