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| Savage Grace | 
 enlarge | Director: Tom Kalin
Actors: Julianne Moore, Eddie Redmayne, Stephen Dillane, Elena Anaya, Simon Andreu
Studio: Ifc
Category: DVD
List Price: $24.95
Buy New: $15.99
You Save: $8.96 (36%)
New (23) Used (5) from $12.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 1375
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 97
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: GEPD81481D
UPC: 796019814812
EAN: 0796019814812
ASIN: B001F0TM4Y
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: December 23, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 12/23/2008 Run time: 96 minutes
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Julianne Moore Tour de Force December 28, 2008
"Savage Grace" is the true story of Barbara Daly (Julianne Moore), a would-be actress, artist, and social climber who, in postwar New York, married wealthy Brooks Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite fortune. Her drinking, making scenes in public, and adulterous flings made the marriage a living nightmare. She was a smothering mother to her gay son, Tony, and the family lived a dysfunctional love triangle that ended in violence and bloodshed.
This is Moore's film all the way. She conveys a sense of inferiority percolating within, since Barbara did marry well above her social station. She needs constant reassurance that she is loved, and craves social acceptance like a drug. Moore makes a rather unpleasant character interesting. Maybe it's the voyeur effect. We feel we're peeking into a privileged world, seeing all its frayed corners and cracks in close-up. And we're fascinated because it's exotic. Stephen Dillane portrays Brooks and Eddie Redmayne is young Tony. Special Features include a making-of featurette and a mini-documentary on the actual story that inspired the movie.
 A wretched film, but truly an uninspired DVD December 26, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Aside from the content and obvious forays into the numerous arguments about the morals/content of this film, I wanted to see if the DVD was given any decent treatment (since no BD was being released).
For starters, the usual IFC/Genius/Weinstein juggernaut does not allow indie stores like mine to get the title through normal channels, but we get them anyway. Then they supplement this DVD with two "docus" - 5 and 3 minutes long (of which they appeared to be set between film breaks on the IFC channel). Both are quick interview snips each laced with film footage - resulting in a 3 minute total of anything worthwhile about the film making.
The picture quality, saturation, sound mixing and subtitle format all looked sophmoric, benign and altogether rushed. I tried viewing on both LCD and plasma upscaled from a BD player and a standard DVD player, but the results all seemed sub par. Julianne Moore's skin and eyes could have looked astounding if done correctly for a movie presentation, but this whole mess is not worth the time or respect of most movie watchers.
A sad story heightened by a masterfully orchestrated train-wreck of a film and DVD. Skipper all the way.
 Do not Waste Your Time!!! December 23, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie is so uneven it is hard to understand what is going on --the plot--where is it--it is all mixed up. Julianne Moore is good but her talents are wasted here. Don't bother with this one. What a bore!!!
 A bit too graceful? November 23, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Wouldn't fault this compelling movie in purely cinematic terms. I would have given it 5 stars were it not for the nagging suspicion that it might have somewhat stylised the dysfunctional traumas involved.
AWFUL..Simply AWFUL October 2, 2008
1 out of 12 found this review helpful
I'm a great fan of Julianne Moore and I'm so disappointed that she would even consider a role in such a low-grade film. I'm not sure what this world is coming to, but we don't need to see crap like that in the movies or on television. Mother and son in bed with another man, doing each other. Moore is above this type of acting. I sure hope she doesn't do such a movie again. I always thought she had a little class, but it was gone by the wayside in this movie. My advice. Don't bother.
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