Safe / American Playhouse Theatrical films presents ; a Chemical Films production ; in association with Good Machine, Kardana Productions, Channel 4 Films, Arnold Semler ; producers, Christine Vachon, Lauren Zalaznick ; written and directed by Todd Haynes.
Edition:
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Julianne Moore, Peter Friedman, Xander Berkeley, Dean Norris, Susan Norman, Kate McGregor Stewart, Mary Carver, Steven Gilborn, April Grace. Originally released as a motion picture in 1995. Special features: audio commentary featuring Haynes, actor Julianne Moore and producer Christine Vachon; New conversation between Haynes and Moore; The Suicide, a 1978 short film by Haynes; new interview with Vachon; trailer; an essay by critic Dennis Lim (on insert).
Summary:
Carol White is an L.A. housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies. A prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what cannot be seen.
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