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7.5/10   18,867 votes
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Todd Haynes (written by)
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Release Date:
22 November 2002 (USA) more
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What imprisons desires of the heart? more
Plot:
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 73 wins & 35 nominations more
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Boring, dull, vacuous, showed no insights more (348 total)

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Also Known As:
Loin du paradis (France)
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Rated PG-13 for mature thematic elements, sexual content, brief violence and language.
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107 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Dennis Haysbert was shuttling back and forth from the east coast to Los Angeles during the production of this movie, because of his commitment to TV show "24" (2001), that was filming at the same time. more
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Continuity: At the dinner table, young David Whitaker's hand is on the table holding his glass of milk, and in a subsequent shot his arm is by his side. more
Quotes:
[Studying a Miró painting]
Raymond Deagan: So, what's your opinion on modern art?
Cathy Whitaker: It's hard to put into words, really. I just know what I care for and what I don't. Like this... I don't know how to pronounce it... Mira?
Raymond Deagan: Miró.
Cathy Whitaker: Miró. I don't know why, but I just adore it. The feeling it gives. I know that sounds terribly vague.
Raymond Deagan: No. No, actually, it confirms something I've always wondered about modern art. Abstract art.
Cathy Whitaker: What's that?
Raymond Deagan: That perhaps it's just picking up where religious art left off, somehow trying to show you divinity. The modern artist just pares it down to the basic elements of shape and color. But when you look at that Miró, you feel it just the same.
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Eagan's Jukebox more

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7 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
Boring, dull, vacuous, showed no insights, 8 March 2003
1/10
Author: Mike Kleinsteuber from Bristol, UK

The reviewers had written very positively about this film so I went with high hopes. Possibly too high, particularly when Hollywood is producing poor quality films aimed simply at getting butts on seats. So this is supposed to be a return to quality stuff is it ? Sure it had lovely sets, costume, shots but where were the real characters ? Where were the insights into human behaviour ? It brought nothing new to me at all and I couldn't fathom what it was saying at all. Simply because it was saying nothing. All the characters was far too simple as were the scenes, dialogue and structure. And don't start lecturing me that this is how it was in the 50's. I grew up in that decade and saw films like 'Look Back in Anger', 'On the Waterfront' and 'Rear Window'. Surely what was needed was to bring more characterisation and development of the story, not less. Heaven help us all if this is seen as Hollywood getting serious.

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