DVD : All That Heaven Allows - Criterion Collection
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 9781559409124
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1559409126
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 19, 2001
Running Time: 89 minutes
Sales Rank: 17507
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 1955-12
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Jane Wyman is a repressed wealthy widow and Rock Hudson is the hunky Thoreau-following gardener who loves her in Douglas Sirk's heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s small-town America. Sirk utilizes expressionist colors, reflective surfaces, and frames-within-frames to convey the loneliness and isolation of a matriarch trapped by the snobbery of her children and the gossip of her social-climbing country club chums. Criterion is proud to present this subversive Hollywood tearjerker in a new Special Edition.
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Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman were so successful in Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession that they reteamed for this, his first melodrama masterpiece. Young hunk Rock is a strapping son of mother nature, a gardener who woos middle-aged, middle class widow Wyman to the snooty disapproval of her conservative social circle and embarrassment of her self-centered children. Wyman discovers a new life with his open-armed friends and back-to-nature lifestyle, but struggles with life-changing decisions in the face of social pressure and vicious gossip. Living the Henry Thoreau dream, Rock inhabits his personal Walden in a rustic country cabin by a bubbling brook, a dream house lit by a giant picture window overlooking an idyllic countryside where deer pose just outside the window. Wyman's elegant but sterile suburban home transforms into a tomb when she sacrifices her love for the "good name" of her children, and the lonely widow sees her future in the pale, colorless reflection of her TV screen. But don't despair just yet: Sirk's heroines are dynamic and resourceful and no Sirk melodrama ends without a heart-tugging, over-the-top twist. German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who championed Sirk as a master and a mentor, remade the film as Ali: Fear Eats the Soul decades later. --Sean Axmaker
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This is a movie that I love. It is a very good movie for the Christmas season.It shows that you can't put off your life for your children all the time. You need to make them understand that they will be leaving home at some time and you will be alone. You will need someone by your side and to keep you company after they leave home.Children can be selfish until they get with their friends, then they forget mother.
I saw the movie on tv some years ago but they don't show it anymore.
Thanks for having this movie.
Lois
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Everywhere I looked this classic movie is almost 40 dollars i finally ordered the vhs just to have this in my classic movie collection . I love this movie the only problem I had was The guy Hudson played wanted Carrie to give up everything and he give up nothing,very selfish in my opinion, Did anyone notice the party scene is almost like the scene in the move My Reputation with Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent
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"All That Heaven Allows" is a 1950s sudser that can be watched on a couple of levels. First and foremost is the entertainment value. Jane Wyman is so terrific playing widow Carrie Scott. Within the first twenty minutes of the movie, three different suitors move in on her. The most intriguing, and from the perfect 1950s standpoint, the most unconventional, is her landscaper, Ron Kirby. Ron is younger. Material wealth means nothing to him, preferring to spend his time with his trees, living Thoreau rather than just reading him. Carrie eventually gives in to temptation and the suburban milieu she skates over is in an uproar. Tongues wag, and her children are shamed: A gardener, Mom! Perish the thought! Let's get you a television instead! It's a soap opera, of course, but also, on a deeper level, an indictment of a certain aspect of that era, the hypocrisy behind the perfect suburban facade in which a respected businessman can make a drunken pass at a neighbor's wife and it be swept under the rug as if it never occurred. But taking up with the "lesser class"...well, Carrie is practically ostracized from Eden. Perhaps that post-World War utopia isn't all that it's cracked up to be.
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Douglas Sirk is/was a brillant film maker. His films are breathtaking to behold. The colors, the production values, the acting. All that Heaven Allows is the perfect cocktail as is Written on the Wind. See also. Todd Haynes homage in Far From Heaven. These films are also wonderful historical documents, they serve as windows into an America that disappered with rotary phones and home milk delivery. Sirk's women like Hitchcock women rivet you to the screen. They never fail to delivery the one two punch of melodrama ( strength and tears but wonderfully dressed and trapped in gilded cages). I LOVE MR. SIRKS "WOMEN'S Pictures". Just Buy it
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starring: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey
directed by: Douglas Sirk
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 9781559409124
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1559409126
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 19, 2001
Running Time: 89 minutes
Sales Rank: 17507
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 1955-12
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