All That Heaven Allows (1955)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:24
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.6/10
Runtime: 89 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: In ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, Douglas Sirk's haunting suburban morality play, Jane Wyman plays Cary Scott, a wealthy middle-aged widow in love with a younger man considered by those around her to be... [More]
Starring: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel
Director: Douglas Sirk
Reviews for All That Heaven Allows
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Romance novel in narrative this transcends its genre with visual depth and perceptive socio-cultural insights. Full Review |
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Beneath the stunningly lovely visuals -- all expressionist colours, reflections, and frames-within-frames, used to produce a precise symbolism -- lies a kernel of terrifying despair Full Review |
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The rich visual texture, using glorious Technicolor, and a soaring emotional score lend what is essentially a thin story a kind of epic tension. Full Review |
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Sirk benefited immeasurably from the fact that the chief subject of his crazy cinema was postwar America. Full Review |
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A classic and beautiful film for those who love romantic stories Full Review |
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4/4 |
One of Sirk's finest films. Full Review |
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Hudson is handsome and somewhat wooden. Laconic of speech, and imbued with an angel's patience and understanding, it's at times hard to understand his passion for the widow, what with pretty girls just spoilingfor his attention. Full Review |
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4/4 |
'Time, if anything, will vindicate Douglas Sirk,' wrote Andrew Sarris in 1968. He was right. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Solid and sensible drama plainly had to give way to outright emotional bulldozing and a paving of easy clichés. Full Review |
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5/5 |
When Carey (Jane Wyman) first visits the Andersons, friends of Ron (Rock Hudson), Thoreau's Walden is placed on the table. She then reads a passage in which he describes the "mass of men living lives of quiet desperation," a summation of her life. Full Review |
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A masterpiece (1955) by one of the most inventive and recondite directors ever to work in Hollywood, Douglas Sirk. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Yet another mystifyingly lionized Sirkian soaper.
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Quite involving, overblown emotion and all, particularly due to Wyman's gentle sincerity. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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4/5 |
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2.5/4 |
The enjoyability of All That Heaven Allows is hampered by the fact that there's no real plot here. Full Review |
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A potent story for the ages. Full Review |
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