
The true story of the beautiful and charismatic but mentally unstable Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Their only child is a failure in his father's eyes, and as he matures and becomes increasingly close to his alienated mother, the seeds for tragedy are sown.... (Full plot summary below)
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The true story of the beautiful and charismatic but mentally unstable Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Their only child is a failure in his father's eyes, and as he matures and becomes increasingly close to his alienated mother, the seeds for tragedy are sown.
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| ComingSoon.netEdward DouglasSadly, it's a classic example of why some novels just don't translate well when adapted to the screen. |
| House Next DoorKeith UhlichWhen [Moore] embarrasses her son by forcing him to read a passage from de Sade's Justine (introduction by Georges Bataille!), ... it's a potent familial cruelty to place alongside the best of Davis and Crawford. |
| Salt Lake TribuneSean P. MeansUltimately, I felt more sorry for Moore - giving her all to a skeezy, tabloid psychodrama - than for her self-absorbed character. |
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceThe most shocking thing about Savage Grace is its flatness |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldAn eerie, unsettling, uniquely creepy experience. |
| Chicago ReaderAndrea GronvallJulianne Moore proves game for anything in this pitch-black true-crime reconstruction, where she stars as mercurial socialite Barbara Baekeland, wife of the taciturn heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune (virtuoso Stephen Dillane). |
| NewsBlazeKam WilliamsA feel-bad peek at how the other half lives showing that no one knows what goes on behind closed doors. |
| NewsdayRafer GuzmanHoward Rodman's fine-tuned script and terrific acting across the board (Hugh Dancy is marvelous as a fashionable, well-manicured monster) makes Savage Grace a pleasure -- albeit a ghastly one -- to watch. |
| KPBS.orgBeth AccomandoThe film boasts another sensational performance by Moore and a welcome return to feature directing by Kalin. |
| Baltimore SunMichael SragowKalin fails to sustain a single tone with his direction or make his vision of the high life as revelatory as it is luxurious. As a director, he's just a tony interior decorator - the swell settings are more seductive than the characters. |