All That Heaven Allows
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 colours, 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.
Year: 1955
Genre: Drama, Classic Drama, Best of the 1950s, Movies (1001 You Must See Before You Die), Classic Cinema
Country: USA
Director: Douglas Sirk
Starring: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey, Gloria Talbott
Duration: 89 Minutes
Rating: G
7.7/10
Location in store: Classic Drama
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