All That Heaven Allows

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National Film Preservation Board 1995-National Film Registry

All That Heaven Allows

Director:
Douglas Sirk
89 Minutes
 

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Film Synopsis

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 colors, 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.

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Details

Runtime:
89 min.

Genres:
Drama
Romance

Country:
UNITED STATES

Language:
English/American

Color:
Color

Plot Summary

SPECIAL FEATURES: 

  • New widescreen digital transfer, enhanced for 16x9 televisions
  • A half hour of excerpts from Behind the Mirror: A Profile of Douglas Sirk, a 1979 BBC documentary featuring rare interview footage with the director
  • "Imitation of Life: On the Films on Douglas Sirk": an illustrated essay by filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • A collection of vintage lobby cards and production stills
  • Original theatrical trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
  • Exclusive liner notes by noted film theorist Laura Mulvey

 

 

 

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  • All That Heaven Allows

    Probably Douglas Sirk's finest film. The colors are phenomenal and it's really great to see Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in these performances. Sirk was a master artist and this film's impact was of course huge, influencing filmmakers decades later and across the globe which can be seen in Fassbiner's ... read more