Based on Nathalie Robins and Steven Aronson’s award-winning novel, which tells the incredible true story of Barbara Daly, wife of Brooks Baekeland, the dashing heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Beautiful, charismatic, Barbara is still not a match for her betterborn husband. The birth of the couple’s only child, Tony, rocks the uneasy balance in this marriage of extremes. Tony is a failure in his father’s eyes, and as he matures he becomes increasingly close to his lonely mother. The seeds for a tragedy of spectacular decadence are sown.

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Tom Kalin

Tom Kalin (born 1962) is an award-winning screenwriter, film director, producer, and professor of experimental film at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee.

His debut feature, Swoon, is considered an integral part of the New Queer Cinema. In addition to his feature work, Kalin has created a number of short films, many of which are collected in the compilations Behold Goliath or The Boy With the Filthy Laugh, Third Known Nest and Tom Kalin Videoworks: Volume 2.

Much of Kalin’s work touches on issues of homosexuality (both modern-day and historical) and AIDS. He was a member of two AIDS direct action groups, ACT UP and Gran Fury. His work has won much critical acclaim and garnered a number of awards and nominations, including honors from the Berlin International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Fest and a number of gay and lesbian film festivals. Kalin won the Gotham Awards Open Palm Award (for Swoon) and has been nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards… read more

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Rina

22Feb13

A solid effort that could have been great. Unfortunately, very often the wonderful performances by Moore and Redmayne are submerged by poor character development and a superficial handling of an otherwise very complex and disturbing plot.

Igor Ramos

13Jun12

Julianne Moore has a stellar role in this movie as the beautiful and decadent Barbara Baekeland. I enjoyed so much watching the distorted relationship between her and her son, Tony... Eddie Redmayne delivered it great! Beautiful sets and landscapes too. I was shocked to know this was in fact inspired by real life events and people!

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