Description Cathy is the perfect 50s housewife with healthy children, a successful husband and a great social life. One night she catches her husband having sex with another man and her world suddenly collapses. This leads her into a relationship with her black American gardener - a socially unacceptable friendship at the time.
| Credits | | Producer: | Christine Vachon, George Clooney, Jody Patton, John Sloss, Pamela Koffler, Steven Soderbergh |
Editorial Reviews "...FAR FROM HEAVEN is nothing short of a masterpiece....It seems, in a single visionary stroke, to have taken the spirit of American independent cinema and brought it full circle back to the soul of vintage Hollywood..." Entertainment Weekly - p.49-54 - Owen Gleiberman
"...It's a bold experiment....[With a] terrific look and perfectly pitched performances..." Hollywood Reporter - p.20 - Michael Rechtshaffen
"...A gorgeously overheated imitation of life..." Rolling Stone - p.114 - Peter Travers
"...An accomplished marriage of elaborate style and content....The film is a jewel on every technical level. Its visual sumptuousness seduces from the opening frame to the last..." Variety - p.29 - David Rooney
"...[Moore gives an] extraordinarily nuanced performance..." Box Office - p.126-7 - Shlomo Schwartzberg
"...Ardent and intelligent....Mr. Haynes is fiercely devoted to his actors....It discover the aching, desiring humanity in a genre -- and a period....In a word, it's divine..." New York Times - p.E1 - A. O. Scott
"...Haynes gets the look and feel right...FAR FROM HEAVEN also has emotional force..." USA Today - p.7E - Mike Clark
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