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Genres:
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Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Tom Kalin
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Actors:
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Julianne Moore,
Anne Reid,
Jim Arnold,
Barney Clark,
Martin Huber,
Minnie Marx,
Stephen Dillane,
Mapi Galán,
Abel Folk,
Belén Rueda
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Duration:
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97 min.
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Rating:
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(5.7/10)126
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Plot Summary:
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The true story of the beautiful and charismatic Barbara Daly, who married above her lineage to Brooks Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Their not young man is a failure in his shepherd's eyes, and as he matures and becomes increasingly bring together to his lonesome mother, the seeds for catastrophe are sown.
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Savage Grace
Barbarous Goodwill features in unison of Julianne Moore's finest and most gallant performances. It's at best a pity the film itself doesn't quite equal her quality, and rarely rises above the neck of a twisted melodrama. Based on the exactly story of the Baekeland children, who made their fortune in the 1920s with the creation of Bakelite, the film begins in 1946. Heir to the family fortuity Brooks Baekeland (Dillane) has fathered a son with his new, bull's-eye-grade wife Barbara (Moore), but the relationship between the resources couple is already unnatural and fraught with problems. This, and Barbara's desperate privation for attraction, means that the bond between her and her new son Tony becomes oddly nearby, and continues developing as he grows into a big...
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