All That Heaven Allows: The Criterion Collection

Summary

An upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers as All That Heaven Allows is given the Criteron treatment and released on Blu-ray 13th March 2023 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Cast

Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey, Gloria Talbott

Director

Douglas Sirk

Producer

Ross Hunter

Distributor

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Run time

1 hour 29 minutes

Release date

13/03/2023

Hash Tag

#AllThatHeavenAllows

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This heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s American mores by Douglas Sirk (Written on the Wind) follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow (Jane Wyman; Magnificent Obsession) and her handsome and earthy younger gardener (Rock Hudson).

After their romance prompts the scorn of her selfish children and snooty country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others. With the help of ace cinematographer Russell Metty (Spartacus), Sirk imbued nearly every shot with a vivid and distinct emotional tenor.

A profoundly felt film about class and conformity in small-town America, All That Heaven Allows, is a pinnacle of expressionistic Hollywood melodrama.

All That Heaven Allows is given the Criteron treatment and released on Blu-ray 13th March 2023 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Special Features

New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Audio commentary featuring John Mercer, co-author of Melodrama: Genre, Style, Sensibility, and film scholar Tamar Jeffers-Mcdonald
Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992), a ground-breaking essay film about the actor by Mark Rappaport
French television interview with Sirk from 1982 excerpts from Behind the Mirror: A Profile of Douglas Sirk, a 1979 BBC documentary featuring rare interview footage with the director
Contract Kid: William Reynolds on Douglas Sirk, a 2007 interview with the actor, who co-starred in three Sirk films, including All That Heaven Allows Trailer
Booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Laura Mulvey and an excerpt from a 1971 essay by filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder on Sirk

Please note - Disc special features are subject to change, may differ from format to format and/or may differ from region to region.

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