Far from Heaven

{{Infobox film | name = Far from Heaven | image = Far from Heaven (2002 film) poster.jpg | alt = | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Todd Haynes | producer = | writer = Todd Haynes | starring = | music = Elmer Bernstein | cinematography = Edward Lachman | editing = James Lyons | studio = | distributor = Focus Features | released = | runtime = 107 minutes<ref>{{cite web|title='Far From Heaven (12A)|url= https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/far-from-heaven-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0zmzm1oda |work=Entertainment Film Distributors|publisher=British Board of Film Classification|date=November 8, 2002|access-date=August 17, 2013}}</ref> | country = United StatesFrance | language = English | budget = $13.5 million | gross = $29 million | image_size = | border = yes }}Far from Heaven is a 2002 independent period romantic drama film written and directed by Todd Haynes, and starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, and Patricia Clarkson. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where Moore won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and cinematographer Edward Lachman won a prize for Outstanding Individual Contribution. The film tells the story of Cathy Whitaker, a 1950s housewife, living in wealthy suburban Connecticut as she sees her seemingly perfect life begin to fall apart. Haynes pays homage to the films of Douglas Sirk (especially 1955's All That Heaven Allows, 1956's Written on the Wind, and 1959's Imitation of Life), and explores race, gender roles, sexual orientation, and class in the context of 1950s America. Plot In 1957 suburban Connecticut, Cathy Whitaker seems to be the perfect wife, mother, and homemaker. Her husband, Frank, is an executive at Magnatech, a television advertising company. One evening, Cathy receives a phone call from the local police, who are holding Frank. When she picks him up, he says it is all a misunderstanding, but it turns out that he has been exploring the illicit underground world of gay bars in Hartford. In the midst of all of this, one day Cathy sees an unfamiliar black man walking in her yard. He turns out to be Raymond Deagan, the son of her late gardener, who is taking over his father's accounts. Frank often stays late at the office. One night when he says he is working, Cathy decides to bring him dinner, and she walks in on him passionately kissing a man.