Far From Heaven

We watched the DVD "Far From Heaven" with Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid. It was based in the fifties and kind of slow paced. It was a good look at the times and prejudices. It highlighted some controversial things and how people reacted to them back then. Boy things have really changed. Good scenery.

Synopsis

It is the fall of 1957 in Hartford, Connecticut and Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore) is returning home from a day of errands. Her husband, Frank (Dennis Quaid) who heads the local branch of the Magnatech TV sales company is expected home for a dinner engagement. As Sybil, their maid, helps Cathy unload the car, David and Janice, the Whitaker children, are told to hurry inside and prepare for dinner. There's only one problem neither Cathy nor Sybil has heard from Mr. Whitaker all afternoon. What begins as a curiously un-ironic snapshot of 1950s American values is soon transformed into a tangle of competing conflicts, igniting Cathy's friendships with her formidable gardener, Raymond (Dennis Haysbert), her plucky best friends (Patricia Clarkson), and maid, Sybil (Viloa Davis). As secrets are revealed, Cathy is faced with choices that spur hatred and gossip within the community. She comes to recognize her own desires, even as, in the process, she has to give up the object of them.