Title:
Safe
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Sony Pictures Classics ; American Playhouse Theatrical Films presents a Chemical Films production in association with Good Machine, Kardana Productions, Channel 4 Films, Arnold Semler ; executive producers, James Schamus, Lindsay Law, Ted Hope ; producers, Christine Vachon, Lauren Zalaznick ; written and directed by Todd Haynes.
Edition:
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Publication Information:
[Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2014]
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert (1 sheet : color illustrations ; 48 x 37 cm).
ISBN:
9781604659313
Series:
General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1995.
Special features: Disc 1: Commentary (with director Todd Haynes, actress Julianne Moore and producer Christine Vachon); Trailer. Disc 2: The suicide (a 1978 short film by Haynes); Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore (conversation between Haynes and Moore where they reflect on the strength of their working relationship and talk about the film where it all began); Christine Vachon (new interview with Vachon where she reflects on the beginnings of her collaborations with director Todd Haynes and discusses the historical context of Safe). Insert includes an essay by critic Dennis Lim.
Abstract:
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.
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: R; for a sex scene and brief language.
MPAA rating: R.
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Added Uniform Title Contained Work:
Container of (work): Suicide (Motion picture)
Contents:
Disc 1. [The movie] -- Disc 2. [Special features]
Credits:
Costume design, Nancy Steiner ; production design, David Bomba ; music composer and performer, Ed Tomney ; editor, James Lyons ; director of photography, Alex Nepomniaschy.
Performer:
Julianne Moore, Peter Friedman, Xander Berkeley, Susan Norman, Kate McGregor Stewart, Mary Carver, Steven Gilborn, April Grace, Peter Crombie, Ronnie Farer, Jodie Markell, Lorna Scott, James LeGros, Dean Norris.
Technical Details:
DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1), monoaural.
Language:
In English with optional English captions.