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All That Heaven Allows (The Criterion Collection) DVD

Unrated :: Criterion :: Released: 2001-06-19

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All That Heaven Allows (The Criterion Collection) Summary 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.

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

All That Heaven Allows [Criterion... DVD Techincal Details Cast: Jane Wyman, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Rated: Unrated
Running Time: 89 mins
UPC: 715515011426
Binding: DVD
Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 2001-06-19
Region Code: 1
Specs: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Unknown - Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono),