Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by rico (A) on November 07, 2006 at 12:53:32

A classic Duglas Sirk soaper about a suburban widow (Jane Wyman) with two obnoxious grown children whose only male choices seem to be a hypochrondriac old imponent bore or a married lech. She becomes enamored with and then involved with a budding tree nurseryman (Rock Hudson), the confident son of a late local gardener. This is of course not allowed in her circles, and soon the local gossip is at it and before you know it all her friends and her two kids have all but disowned her, causing her to "postpone" the upcoming marriage to the Rockster. Then tragedy ensues...
Classic Hollywood, wildly overplayed but with with a Sirk formality that asks you to go along. This was revisited recently in "Far From Heaven", where the Hudson character is black. I had a good time but I'm a sucker for chick flicks.