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All That Heaven Allows
Drama, Romance
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy emotionally direct romantic melodrama about resisting social expectations, with polished imagery and aching performances.
- Tone
- romantic, melancholic, bittersweet
- Payoff
- swoon, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- love across class, social conformity, widowhood, family pressure, personal independence
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, affluent New England suburb and rural countryside
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