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Director:
Todd Haynes
Writer (WGA):
Todd Haynes (written by)
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Release Date:
22 November 2002 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
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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Awards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 73 wins & 35 nominations more
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Welcome Back to the Fifties more (348 total)

Cast

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Julianne Moore ... Cathy Whitaker

Dennis Quaid ... Frank Whitaker

Dennis Haysbert ... Raymond Deagan

Patricia Clarkson ... Eleanor Fine

Viola Davis ... Sybil
James Rebhorn ... Dr. Bowman
Bette Henritze ... Mrs. Leacock

Michael Gaston ... Stan Fine
Ryan Ward ... David Whitaker

Lindsay Andretta ... Janice Whitaker

Jordan Puryear ... Sarah Deagan
Kyle Timothy Smith ... Billy Hutchinson (as Kyle Smyth)
Celia Weston ... Mona Lauder

Barbara Garrick ... Doreen
Olivia Birkelund ... Nancy
Stevie Ray Dallimore ... Dick Dawson
Mylika Davis ... Esther
Jason Franklin ... Photographer
Gregory Marlow ... Reginald Carter
C.C. Loveheart ... Marlene
June Squibb ... Elderly Woman
Laurent Giroux ... Man with Mustache
Alex Santoriello ... Spanish Bartender
Matt Malloy ... Red Faced Man
J.B. Adams ... Farnsworth
Kevin Carrigan ... Soda Jerk

Chance Kelly ... Tallman
Declan Baldwin ... Officer #1

Brian Delate ... Officer #2
Pamela Evans ... Kitty

Joe Holt ... Hotel Waiter
Ben Moss ... Hutch's Friend
Susan Willis ... Receptionist
Karl Schroeder ... Conductor
Lance Olds ... Bail Clerk

Johnathan McClain ... Staff Member #1
Nicholas Joy ... Blond Boy
Virl Andrick ... Blond Boy's Father

Jezabel Montero ... Hooker (as Jezebel Montero)
Geraldine Bartlett ... Woman at Party
Ernest Rayford III ... Glaring Man
Duane McLaughlin ... Jake
Betsy Aidem ... Pool Mother
Mary Anna Klindtworth ... Pool Daughter
Ted Neustadt ... Ron
Thomas Torres ... Band Leader

Blondell Cooper ... Hostess
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Fabrizio Fante ... Hartford Commuter (uncredited)

Ben Hauck ... Refreshments Boy (uncredited)

Michael Linstroth ... Kenny's Brother (uncredited)

Sarah Beth Nelson ... Box Office Ticket Seller (uncredited)

John H. Tobin ... Hartford Art Buyer (uncredited)

Kristen Vermilyea ... New Year's Eve Party Goer (uncredited)
Jennifer Weedon ... Kissing Girl (uncredited)
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Directed by
Todd Haynes 
 
Writing credits
(WGA)
Todd Haynes (written by)

Produced by
Declan Baldwin .... co-producer
George Clooney .... executive producer
Jody Patton .... producer
Eric Robison .... executive producer
Bradford Simpson .... co-producer
John Sloss .... executive producer
Steven Soderbergh .... executive producer
Christine Vachon .... producer
John Wells .... executive producer
Tracy Brimm .... executive producer (uncredited)
Diane Cornell .... financial line producer (uncredited)
Jean-Charles Levy .... associate producer (uncredited)
 
Original Music by
Elmer Bernstein (music by)
 
Cinematography by
Edward Lachman (director of photography)
 
Film Editing by
James Lyons 
 
Casting by
Laura Rosenthal 
 
Production Design by
Mark Friedberg 
 
Art Direction by
Peter Rogness 
 
Set Decoration by
Ellen Christiansen 
 
Costume Design by
Sandy Powell 
 
Makeup Department
Alan D'Angerio .... key hair stylist
Hildie Ginsberg .... makeup artist
Michael Kriston .... hair stylist
Elaine L. Offers .... makeup supervisor (as Elaine Offers)
Mary Cooke .... hair stylist (uncredited)
Eva Polywka .... additional makeup artist (uncredited)
 
Production Management
Brad Goodman .... post-production supervisor
Scott Koenig .... production manager
Katie Roumel .... executive in charge of production (uncredited)
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Timothy Bird .... first assistant director
Kristal D. Moseley .... second second assistant director
Peter Thorell .... second assistant director
 
Art Department
Derrick Alford .... shop craft
JoAnn Atwood .... on-set dresser
Robert Barnett .... camera scenic
Eric Bart .... journeyman
James Boniece .... best boy construction grip
Douglas Bowen .... shop craft (as Douglas M. Bowen)
Paul Candrilli .... construction grip
Ralph Contrado .... journeyman
Michele Corn .... journeyman (as Michele Corn Farrell)
Eva P. Davy .... journeyman (as Eva Davy)
Rena DeAngelo .... assistant set decorator
Alex DiGerlando .... art department production assistant (as Alex Digerlando)
Paul George Divone .... shop craft (as Paul Divone)
James Donahue .... journeyman
Bridget Drummond .... construction tracker
Marcial Garlitos .... shop craft
Alison Gilham .... journeyman
Harvey Goldberg .... set dresser foreman
Charles Goodman .... construction grip
Jonathan Graham .... key construction grip
Roman Greller .... set dresser
Tom Grunke .... construction grip
Sandy Hamilton .... property master
Joanna Hartell .... set dresser
James Hoff .... journeyman
Dana Hook .... best boy construction grip (as Dana S. Hook)
Bruno Jakob .... paintings by
Janet Kalas .... journeyman
Henry Kaplan .... set dresser
Brad Katz .... paintings by
Lisa Kennedy .... journeyman
Myron Kerstein .... paintings by
Claire Kirk .... art department coordinator
Morton Korn .... construction grip
Gordon Krause .... key shop craft
Rob Landoll .... shop scenic (as Robert Landoll)
Roger Lang .... shop craft
Steven E. Lawler .... shop craft (as Steven A. Lawler)
Elizabeth Linn .... charge scenic
Jeff Lomaglio .... shop craft
Michael Loonam .... shop production assistant
Miguel López-Castillo .... assistant art director (as Miguel Lopez-Castillo)
James Maiello .... shop craft
Timothy Main .... shop craft (as Tim Main)
Jeffrey D. McDonald .... assistant art director (as Jeff McDonald)
Michael A. McFadden .... construction grip (as Michael McFadden)
Timothy Metzger .... leadman (as Tim Metzger)
Nick Miller .... construction coordinator
Ronald Miller .... shop craft
Kris Moran .... assistant property master
Don Nace .... scenic foreman
Quang Nguyen .... journeyman
Mel Noped .... construction grip (as Melvin Noped)
Michael O'Dell Green .... journeyman (as Michael D. Green)
Janine Pesce .... set dresser
Romano C. Pugliese .... greensperson (as Romano Pugliese)
Charles Quinlivan .... construction grip
Paul Ramirez .... shop scenic
Malcolm Reid .... shop craft
Lawrence Robinson .... journeyman
James Sadek .... shop craft
Johnny Santiago .... construction grip
Will Scheck .... first greensperson
Elaine Schindler .... journeyman
Mark Paul Selemon .... second greensperson (as Mark Selemon)
Richard A. Sirico .... shop craft
Jennifer Snoeyink .... journeyman (as Jennifer Snoeyink-Moskowitz)
Beth Solin .... journeyman
Jonathan Swain .... greensperson
Robert Vaccariello .... shop craft (as Robert A. Vaccariello)
Holly Watson .... graphics
Thomas White .... shop craft
Anthony Baldasare .... set dresser (uncredited)
Paul Camarro .... set dresser (uncredited)
Brent Godek .... set dresser (uncredited)
 
Sound Department
Kelley Baker .... supervising sound editor
David Boulton .... adr mixer
Robert Carr .... mix recordist
David A. Cohen .... dialogue editor
Michael 'Gonzo' Gandsey .... sound editor
Marshall Garlington .... re-recording mixer
Jeanne Gilliland .... boom operator (as Jeanne L. Gilliland)
Amy Hammer .... operations: Wilshire Stages
Drew Kunin .... production sound mixer
Marnie Moore .... foley artist
Richard Moore .... sound editor
Richard Partlow .... foley artist (as Rick Partlow)
Andy Peach .... mix recordist (as Andrew Peach)
Frank Rinella .... foley mixer (as Frank Renella)
Paul Rodriguez .... operations: Wilshire Stages
Leslie Shatz .... sound re-recording mixer
Concha Solano .... first assistant sound editor
Eric Thompson .... adr mixer
Lesly Verduin .... apprentice sound editor
Joe White .... boom operator (as Joseph White Jr.)
James Willetts .... foley recordist
Patrick Winters .... adr and foley editor
James Wright .... consultant: Dolby Sound (as Jim Wright)
Peter Appleton .... adr supervisor (uncredited)
Chris Navarro .... adr recordist (uncredited)
 
Special Effects by
Michael Bird .... special effects assistant
Steven Kirshoff .... special effects coordinator (as Steve Kirshoff)
Thomas Viviano .... special effects assistant (as Thomas L. Viviano)
 
Visual Effects by
Shaina Holmes .... digital compositor (uncredited)
Laurie Powers .... digital compositor (uncredited)
Mark Sawicki .... optical camera (uncredited)
 
Stunts
Peter Bucossi .... stunt coordinator
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Divine Cox .... grip (as Divine T. Cox)
John W. DeBlau .... gaffer (as John W. Deblau)
Jay Feather .... second assistant camera
Richard Ford .... rigging best boy
David Franzoni .... best boy electric
Abbot Genser .... still photographer (as Abbott Genzer)
Richard Gioia .... first assistant camera
Craig Haagensen .... camera operator
Anthony Hecanova .... loader (as Anthony Hechanova)
Paul Kinghan .... shop electric
David Lee .... still photographer
Dave Lowry .... best boy grip (as David F. Lowry Jr.)
Rick Marroquin .... dolly grip
James McMillan .... key grip (as James C. McMillan III)
Jim McMillan Jr. .... grip (as James C. McMillan Jr.)
Charles Meere III .... generator operator
Tom Percarpio .... rigging gaffer (as Thomas Percarpio)
Mark Schwentner .... third electric
Christopher Vaccaro .... grip (as Chris Vaccaro)
Craig Vaccaro .... key rigging grip
Nicky 'Nuckles' Vaccaro .... rigging grip (as Nick Vaccaro)
Peter Colavito .... electrician (uncredited)
Jason Micallef .... lamp operator (uncredited)
Melissa O'Brien .... assistant camera (uncredited)
 
Casting Department
Krista Bogetich .... casting assistant
Karen E. Etcoff .... extras casting: Kee Casting (as Karen Etcoff)
Bill Tripician .... extras casting assistant
Ali Farrell .... casting associate (uncredited)
 
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Jill E. Anderson .... set costumer
David Davenport .... wardrobe supervisor
Patricia Eiben .... costumer
Joni M. Huth .... tailor
Jessica Jahn .... costume assistant
Dain I. Kalas .... tailor (as Dain Kalas)
Cheryl Kilbourne-Kimpton .... set costumer
Mary Jo McGrath .... costume coordinator (as M. J. McGrath)
Lisa Padovani .... assistant costume designer
Barbara Presar .... costumer
Tom Soluri .... set costumer
Thomas Stokes .... costumer (as Tom Stokes)
Susan J. Wright .... wardrobe supervisor
Stephanie Biear .... seamstress (uncredited)
John Cowell .... head costume painter (uncredited)
Addie Hall .... costumer (uncredited)
 
Editorial Department
Jack Baierlein .... colorist: video dailies
Kiersten Harter .... second assistant editor
Elizabeth Merrick .... editorial production assistant
Veronica Vichit-Vadakan .... apprentice editor
Joe Violante .... dailies advisor (as Joey Violante)
Shelly Westerman .... associate editor
Lee Wimer .... color timer
Joe Finley .... digital colorist (uncredited)
 
Music Department
Emilie A. Bernstein .... orchestrator
Joanie Diener .... music editor
Nathan Kaproff .... music contractor
Joe Lisanti .... music editor
Cynthia Millar .... musician: piano solos
Patrick Russ .... assistant orchestrator
Carl Sealove .... assistant music editor
Dan Wallin .... scoring engineer
Warren Sherk .... music preparation (uncredited)
 
Transportation Department
Tommy Allen .... period vehicle coordinator (as Thomas C. Allen)
Robert Buckman .... transportation co-captain
Timothy P. Cassella .... driver
Richard Clark .... driver
Louis Ferrajoli .... driver (as Louis Ferraioli)
William R. Hilt .... driver
Michael Hyde .... transportation captain
William J. Junior .... driver
Peter Krienbihl .... driver (as Peter A. Kreinbihl)
Salvatore R. Maffei .... driver
Robert 'Bull' Maher .... driver (as Robert Maher)
Jimmy Mahr .... driver (as James Mahr)
Edward Meyers .... driver (as Edward Myers)
Michael B. Russell .... driver (as Michael Russell)
 
Other crew
Ethan Anderson .... craft service
Anita Boudreaux .... assistant post-production accountant
Paul Brennan .... legal services: Sloss Law Office (as Paul Brennan Esq.)
Rich Cairns .... production office intern
Cheyanne M. Casey .... production office intern
David Chambers .... location production assistant
Kevin Chisolm .... stand-in
Mike Currie .... set production assistant
Mark Dornfeld .... titles and opticals: Custom Film Effects
Deb Dyer .... production accountant
Lisa Edmondson .... assistant: Mr. Bernstein
Missy Eustermann .... post-production accountant
Lindsay Feldman .... set intern
Katie Feola .... set intern
J. Eric Fisher .... office production assistant
Daniel Garrison .... set intern
Jennifer Gaylord .... legal services: Sloss Law Office (as Jennifer Gaylord Esq.)
Rhonda George .... assistant production coordinator
Dave Glew .... key production assistant
Reshma Gopaldas .... assistant: Ms. Moore
Kenda Greenwood .... production office intern
Don Hansard .... process projection (as Don Hansard Jr.)
Don Hansard .... rear screen projection (as Don Hansard Jr.)
Bill Hansard Jr. .... process projection (as William G. Hansard)
Bill Hansard Jr. .... rear screen projection (as William G. Hansard)
Jocelyn Hayes .... creative executive: Killer Films
Jeff Hill .... publicist
Beau Holden .... assistant: Mr. Quaid
Jesse Hove .... location production assistant
Sebastian Ischer .... set intern
Thomas Johnston .... script supervisor
Sherman Kaplan .... immigration attorney (as Sherman I. Kaplan)
Eva Karlicki .... cleaning services
Louis Katz .... production physician (as Louis Katz MD)
Diedre Kilgore .... stand-in
Vince Klein .... stand-in
Ryan Lakenan .... office production assistant
Christine Leaman .... location assistant
Yana Collins Lehman .... legal services: Sloss Law Office (as Yana Collins)
Erica Levy .... set production assistant
Ana Lombardo .... location coordinator
Lisa Madden .... accounting clerk (as Lisa Marie Madden)
Anabel Manchester .... location intern
Keira March .... first assistant accountant
Jon Marcus .... production executive: Killer Films
Marlene McCarty .... title design: Bureau
Raynelle Irene Mensah .... film runner (as Raynelle Mensah)
Kellie Morrison .... assistant location manager
Kip Myers .... location assistant
Raymond L. Negron .... set intern (as Ray Negron)
Zerlina Oppenheim .... set intern
Macall B. Polay .... payroll accountant
Joaquin Diego Prange .... location assistant
Jonathan Raymond .... assistant: Mr. Haynes (as Slats Grobnik)
Mike S. Ryan .... location manager
Kieran Shea .... location scout
Susan Shin George .... titles and opticals: Custom Film Effects
Nicola Silverstone .... administrator: Square One
Tanya Smith .... assistant: Mr. Haynes (as Checkers Smith)
Karen Koula Sossiadis .... production coordinator (as Koula Sossiadis)
Katina Sossiadis .... production secretary
Brett Spiegel .... production office intern
Susan J. Spohr .... liaison: CFI (as Susan Spohr)
Debbie Stampfle .... set production assistant
Jennifer Stefanon .... film runner
Conrad Tamayo .... production office intern (as Conrad L. Tamayo)
April Taylor .... location assistant
Edward Tejada .... parking coordinator
Ginger Thatcher .... choreographer
Jay Van Hoy .... office manager
Joe Violante .... dailies processing: Technicolor (as Joey Violante)
Sheri von Seeburg .... researcher (as Sheri Von Seeberg)
Daniel Wagner .... assistant: Ms. Vachon
Derek Wimble .... set production assistant
Daniel Winchester .... film runner
Annie Young Frisbie .... product placement (as Annie Young)
Vikas Bandhu .... production assistant (uncredited)
Travis William Blue .... office intern (uncredited)
Michael J. Cargill .... production assistant (uncredited)
Rebecca Ewing .... production assistant (uncredited)
Randy Manion .... location scout (uncredited)
Raynelle Irene Mensah .... office production assistant (uncredited)
Guillaume Renberg .... remote head technician (uncredited)
Vicki Dee Rock .... production executive (uncredited)
Eugene Stamos .... craft service (uncredited)
 
Thanks
Dan Frazier .... the producers wish to thank
Craig Gering .... special thanks
Scott Greenstein .... the producers wish to thank
Wendy Haynes .... the producers wish to thank
Pamela Koffler .... acknowledgement: for Killer Films
Joan McAllister .... the producers wish to thank
Phil Morrison .... the producers wish to thank
Steven Raphael .... special thanks
Noah Reibel .... the producers wish to thank
Robin Rosenberg .... the producers wish to thank
Katie Roumel .... acknowledgement: for Killer Films
Michael Silverman .... the producers wish to thank
Joanne Woodward .... the producers wish to thank
 
Crew believed to be complete


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Also Known As:
Loin du paradis (France)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for mature thematic elements, sexual content, brief violence and language.
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Runtime:
107 min
Country:
USA | France
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Portugal:M/12 | USA:TV-14 (TV rating) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:14 | Canada:PG | Chile:14 | Finland:K-7 | France:U | Germany:6 | Hong Kong:IIA | Norway:11 | Peru:14 | Singapore:M18 (re-rating) | Singapore:NC-16 (original rating) | South Korea:12 | Spain:7 | Sweden:Btl | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12A | USA:PG-13 (certificate #39061) | Netherlands:12
Filming Locations:
Bayonne, New Jersey, USA more
Company:
Focus Features more

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Trivia:
Julianne Moore was the one who suggested that her character had to be blonde. Todd Haynes disagreed at first, but later told her she was right. So he had to do some changes in the film, like the color of the scarf, in order to fit that. more
Goofs:
Continuity: On the train station, when the train is leaving, a woman in purple walks between Cathy and the train. Next shot, the woman is gone. more
Quotes:
[Frank is drunk at the cocktail party]
Stan Fine: Frank is the luckiest guy in town!
Frank Whitaker: It's all smoke and mirrors, fellas. That's all it is. You should see her without her face on.
Doreen: Frank!
Cathy Whitaker: No, he's absolutely right. We ladies are never what we appear, and every girl has her secrets.
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Soundtrack:
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30 out of 44 people found the following comment useful.
Welcome Back to the Fifties, 8 November 2002
Author: Ralph Michael Stein (riglltesobxs@mailinator.com) from New York, N.Y.

Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid effectively inhabit their roles in "Far From Heaven," an engrossing flashback to an affluent northeastern suburb, Hartford CT in 1957-8. Quaid is Frank Whitaker, top sales exec in a company meeting the voracious needs of American consumers for the latest in gadgets and appliances. His wife, Cathy, is so much the high profile model for the typical stay-at-home, support your hubby, take care of the kids mom that she is shadowed by the local gossip reporter and her photographer. She thinks she has the perfect marriage and two terrific if not invariably best behaved kids. Both, however, are too interesting to be mistaken as a large screen resurrection of a 50s sitcom couple.

Cathy can't catch the clue when she bails Frank out of the police station and he mutters angrily about the arresting officers mistaking him for a "loiterer." A loiterer in a neat business suit with a topcoat in Hartford? Only one kind of well-dressed character like that attracted police attention in those days.

Dispensing good cheer everywhere, Cathy decides to bring dinner to her hardworking-at-night husband (no spoiler here, every media review has this part). And what should she find? Frank is in the arms of a man, kissing him actually, clothing in disarray.

Today, a presumably straight spouse or lover being gay, secretly, isn't a taboo subject. It was in Cathy and Frank's time and, in fact, no movie from that period would have touched this subject with a ten-foot boom mike. "An Affair to Remember" was risque enough.

Cathy insists Frank get help and James Rebhorn in a brief role as psychiatrist Dr. Bowman explains the most modern therapeutic approaches to "converting" Frank to exclusive heterosexuality. This was in the days when homosexuality was an official diagnosed mental illness.

In what could have been a familiar variation of the white/black awkward beginnings of friendship seen in Sidney Poitier movies but which in this instance has a refreshing originality, Cathy befriends gardener Raymond Deagan (Dennis Haysbert). An attractive and prominent white woman being seen in public with a black man in the South at this time would have led to probably horrific repercussions. Here we get to see 1950s racist northern suburbia, people who decry Arkansas obduracy (there's a brief shot of President Eisenhower on TV announcing the despatch of the 101st Airborne Division to confront the state's mad governor at Little Rock High School) while dispensing their own venom. No guns, no lynchings, no white sheets - just an insidious degradation of blacks, reducing them to actual invisibility when convenient.

The friendship between Cathy and Raymond is at first tentative and it grows with affecting tenderness. So does the shocked anger of the wealthy gaggle in Frank and Cathy's social circle.

Is Frank cured of his "illness?" Does racial tolerance and respect for diversity seep into Hartford's tony neighborhood? Does everyone live happily ever after? Go see the film. The mid-afternoon packed audience in Manhattan's Lincoln Plaza Cinema broke into applause at the end.

Viola Davies turns in a small but critically important role as the Whitaker's maid, Sybil. Fine acting.

Director Todd Haynes allowed Moore and Quaid to make their roles real, involving, and anguished and funny in turn. Both stars deserve Oscar and Golden Globe nominations.

Rooted in the 50s in many ways, composer Elmer Bernstein turned out a good score, original rather than depending on recognizable tunes from the time. But as is so often the case, at points the score is unduly intrusive where the actors' words and expressions convey all that is necessary, music being an annoyance.

8/10.

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