CULT indie director Todd Haynes recreates the technicolour splendour of Fifties melodramas in Far From Heaven (12A), a moving and compelling tale of secrets and prejudice.
Dennis Quaid and wife Julianne Moore are the toast of 1957 Hartford, Connecticut: hugely successful and deliriously in love, with two beautiful children. However, dark secrets bubble beneath the surface of the Whitaker's seemingly perfect life.
Quaid struggles to control his homosexual urges and finds himself drawn into an illicit affair with an attractive blonde youth. He agrees to go to seek counsel from a GP, hoping for some miracle cure to his 'illness'. Inevitably, he cannot deny his true self.
Meanwhile, the wonderful Moore's friendship with black gardener Dennis Haysbert sets tongues wagging.
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