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Savage Grace (2008)
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Director Tom Kalin compellingly recounts the real-life circumstances and events that led to the murder of socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland (Julianne Moore) at the hands of her son (Eddie Redmayne) in 1972. Infidelity, family dysfunction, incest and homosexuality are all part of the unsettling brew in this shocking drama (based on a true story) also starring Stephen Dillane as Barbara's coldblooded husband.
| Release Date: | June 13th, 2008 |
| MPAA Rating: | R |
| Running Time: | 97 minutes |
| Directed By: |  | Tom Kalin |
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The rich really are different. Four-time Oscar nominee Julianne Moore (The Hours, Boogie Nights) is socially conscious wife of an heir to the Bakelite fortune, Stephen Dillane ("John Adams"), who presents as an unfeeling husband. She is too close to her son Tony, and he steals away his girlfriend, Blanca (Elena Anaya -...
(complete Savage Grace review by Movie Addict)
| Savage Grace Movie Review by Jarrod (6/9/2008) |
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'Savage Grace' is an odd and disturbing film about Barbara Daly (Julianne Moore), who married Brooks Baekeland (Stephen Dillane), heir to a plastics fortune (one of his ancestors actually invented plastic), and had a son with him, named Tony (Eddie Redmayne). Barbara was murdered by Tony in 1972; but the events leading...
(complete Savage Grace review by Jarrod)
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