“For a million dollars, would you eat a pound of human flesh?” “Would you go to bed with the first person you met after going through a revolving door, for a million dollars?” Brooks nods yes to that, so Barbara declares, more or less, “If that’s the way you feel, I’ll just go off with the first man that comes along in a car,” and she does so, leaving her husband and friends on the sidewalk. ![]() They dine at the fashionable Stork Club in New York with the likes of Prince Aschwin of Lippe-Biesterfeld, brother of the Netherlands’ Prince Bernhard (and an ardent Nazi in the 1930s).Ī game is played at the table. Barbara (Julianne Moore) is beautiful and vivacious, Brooks (Stephen Dillane) handsome and debonair, as well as something of an intellectual. We first see the couple in New York in 1946, not long after their son’s birth. Screenwriter Howard Rodman and director Tom Kalin ( Swoon) based their film on the story of Barbara and Brooks Baekeland, the heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune, and their son, Tony, which culminated in a tragic murder in 1972. ![]() ![]() Savage Grace is a disturbing and painful drama, about an American family unhappy in any number of ways. Directed by Tom Kalin, screenplay by Howard Rodman, based on the book by Natalie Robins and Steven M.L.
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