| Description |
2 videodiscs (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital optical mono rda |
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video file DVD video rda |
| Series |
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 739.
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| System Details |
DVD, widescreen (1.85:1), mono. |
| Note |
Title from container. |
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Special edition features: Audio commentary featuring director Todd 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 |
| Cast |
Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley, Dean Norris. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: R; for a sex scene and brief language. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Pollution -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Allergy -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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DVD-Video discs.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Haynes, Todd, film director.
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Moore, Julianne, actor.
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Berkeley, Xander, 1955- actor.
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Norris, Dean, actor.
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9781604659313 |
| Standard No. |
715515133111 |
| Music No. |
CC2424DDVD The Criterion Collection |
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