If you don’t, it might be you ordering Chinese food while standing over a parent’s dead body. BOP is worried about you and wants you to get the help you need. If you are sold on the idea of watching a family’s implosion straight down to the incest and matricide, well, we think you probably want to go back on your happy pills and give your therapist a call. If you want to see her in a smutty role without wanting to kill yourself by the end of the movie, BOP recommends Boogie Nights. Indie darling Julianne Moore stars in the role of model/sex addict/bored wife/son seducer. It’s a sunny tale all around, isn’t it?īecause people are too happy in their own lives, IFC Films has made sure to film this dreary tale of bad people doing bad things to one another. He was ordering Chinese food when the police arrived and discovered the new corpse. Rodman, based on the book Savage Grace by Natalie Robins and Steven M.L. Before the body had grown cold, Antony realized he needed a snack. Savage Grace is a 2007 drama film directed by Tom Kalin and written by Howard A.
After the conclusion of their incestuous act, the already mentally unstable boy (ain’t genetics a bitch?) held a grudge about the creepy thing his mother had just got him to do. Eventually, she came to the conclusion that there was only one woman in the world who could seduce him. She began to pay women to sleep with him, growing more and more frustrated by his refusal to do so. Over time, Barbara developed an obsession with her son’s sex life, determining that she must bring him back to the boy/girl side of intimacy. Basically, she was a walking Penthouse Letters who narrated her own stories for family members. Bothered by his homosexuality, she frequently taunted him too with tales of lust from her daily life. Part of the stress in their relationship stemmed from Barbara’s creepily close relationship with her son, Antony. Eventually, he would leave her for another woman. Instead, Savage Grace attempts to humanize the life of Barbara Daly Baekeland, a retired London model whose emotional instability was well known in social circles.īaekeland was a sexual deviant who would constantly throw her affairs in the face of her long suffering husband, Brooks Baekeland.
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Pretty much every aspect of it was wholly unlikable.Īlright! It’s another creepy, based-on-a-true-story movie about an incestuous relationship between mother and son! Why, the box office potential for this is off the charts! Okay, given that this movie’s budget is not even $5 million, that’s certainly not what the project is about. Green then took legal action against the film makers, which was still unresolved at the time of his death.The original crime may have been a page turner in the newspapers at the time, but I didn't find anything interesting in the movie. Sam Green Īfter the film opened, Baekeland's former lover, Samuel Adams Green (played by Dancy in the film), wrote an article pointing out that elements in the film were factually inaccurate, such as the ménage à trois scene of Barbara, Antony, and Sam having sex.
Savage Grace was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay in 2008. Peter Bradshaw writing in The Guardian gave the film four out of five stars, describing it as "a gripping, coldly brilliant and tremendously acted movie." Accolades The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has a 38% of approval, based on 89 reviews - the consensus reads "though visually compelling, the lamentable characters in Savage Grace make for difficult viewing." Metacritic, another review aggregator, reported the film had an average score of 51 out of 100, based on 28 reviews. The story begins with Antony's birth and follows the family to the time of his arrest for the murder of his mother.Ĭritics gave the film mixed reviews. The film is based on the true story of Barbara Daly Baekeland (Moore), her husband Brooks Baekeland (Dillane), heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune, and their only child Antony (Redmayne), who was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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