Libramedi Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Aedonerre I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

cybrsrch Its sad and sickening that this even in the smallest way reflects the attitudes of the time, what a backwards ignorant place it was in the 50's. The self righteous attitudes speaks to the evangelicals and the warped morals of so called christains. This film was all about social status and money grubbing, with a side dish of abuse and inferred rape and murder as the base feeling these backward men represent. Why not have the molester reach up her skirt too at the party, goes along with the warped idea that this is in anyway a story about truth, just a perverted look at how they abused women, more tRumpian that anything, MAGA, lets all time warp back to the 50's where rape is just a mental state and men do as they please

Dalbert Pringle OK - Was "All That Heaven Allows" melodramatic? - Yes. Indeed. It was. And, was it corny-corny-corny? - Most definitely. And, was it clichéd to the max? - Yep. Right over the top.And, yet, regardless of all of the above - Was "All That Heaven Allows" worth a view? Yep. That it was. In fact, it actually could be worth a second viewing, too. (If, of course, you're in the right frame of mind)1955's "All That Heaven Allows" was a lush, Technicolor, Ross Hunter/Douglas Sirk production that (believe it, or not) actually made "humdrum" seem somehow interesting.I don't know exactly what it is about this particular "suburban-life" soap opera that sets it apart from the rest of the junk - But, it certainly did manage to hold my attention for most of its 90-minute running time.*Note* - This film certainly did contain its fair share of unintentionally laughable dialogue and situations, especially when it came to widow Cary Scott's interaction with her 2 snot-nosed, college-age children.

movie-viking The "may December" movie is more a "Working Class Guy vs Slightly Older Well-off Widow".Jane Wyman was only 8 years older than Rock Hudson, and she looks great in this movie...barely old enough to be mom to her 17 year old girl and college age boy. So what's the REAL obstacle? The contrast is... rich widow with know-it-all college kids versus the creative working class guy.The dialogue and some of the so-called obstacles just a bit corny, but is beautifully lit. Mr. Sirk--the director--was a master of color and scene layout!Young filmmakers can learn from this wonderfully lit and shot film. Note the use of shadows also!!!

G K A sad widow (Jane Wyman) falls in love with the gardener (Rock Hudson) at her winter home, and marries him despite local prejudice when she returns home.All That Heaven Allows is a standard tearjerker in the tradition of Magnificent Obsession (1954), reuniting the same stars, producer Ross Hunter and director Douglas Sirk. At the time, critics failed to grasp the suggested gay subtext in the story, and dismissed it as a routine soap. But modern audiences get the point, through its atmosphere of barely suppressed hysteria and the framing of Wyman as a prisoner in her own home. In 1995, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".