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Money, madness, incest and murder! Just the recipe for a twisted
mesmerizer of a movie, if it doesn't creep you out. It's the true
story of Barbara Daly (Julianne Moore), a social climber who
marries Brooks Baekeland (Stephen Dillane), the heir to a plastics
empire, and proceeds to, well, just watch and hold your jaw up with
both hands. Director Tom Kalin (Swoon) is a huge talent,
and working from a script that Howard Rodman carved out of a book
by Natalie Robins and Steven M.L. Aronson, he uses dark humor and
artful style to pull you into a tale of the rich abusing their
privileges. Barbara dotes on her gay son, Tony (the excellent Eddie
Redmayne), with boundary-shattering intensity. From Tony's birth in
1946 to Barbara's murder in 1972, Savage Grace travels the
world with...
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3 Stars
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