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Savage Grace (2007)

 -  Drama  -  25 January 2008 (Spain)
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A dramatization of the shocking Barbara Daly Baekeland murder case, which happened in a posh London flat on Friday 17 November 1972. The bloody crime caused a stir on both sides of the Atlantic and remains one of the most memorable American Tragedies...

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Nini Daly
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Midge Vanden Heuvel
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Joost Vanden Heuvel
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Tony at 12
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Jean Pierre Souvestre
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Blanca
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Black Jake Martínez
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Lorna Moffat
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The true story of the beautiful and charismatic Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Their only child is a failure in his father's eyes, and as he matures and becomes increasingly close to his lonely mother, the seeds for tragedy are sown. Written by Anonymous

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Release Date:

25 January 2008 (Spain)  »

Also Known As:

A szerelem kegyelme  »

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Box Office

Budget:

$4,600,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$22,311 (USA) (30 May 2008)

Gross:

$434,417 (USA) (15 August 2008)
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Trivia

The beach scenes were shot during a high tourist season, and according to Tom Kalin, German nudists were the most common tourists at the location. They had to be wrangled out of some shots, much to the consternation of the crew, and to Julianne Moore, whose daughter Liv was on set. See more »

Goofs

While Barbara and Antony are sitting in a bistro she incorrectly states and attributes the quote "when a man is tired of Paris he is tired of life" she states it is by Fitzgerald or Hemingway. The correct quote is "when a man is tired of London he is tired of life", and it is by Samuel Johnson. See more »

Quotes

Antony Baekeland: [Tony quoting something his grandfather used to say] "One of the uses of money is that it allows us not to live with the consequences of our mistakes."
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"Lullaby for Tony"
Written and Performed by Dawn Landes
(c) Cropduster Music (BMI)
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Quite good, actually
31 March 2008 | by See all my reviews

The film is different. It does stand out amongst hundreds of "seen-this-before" flicks.

Juliane Moore is great, of course.

One of her best performances, actually.

The film has the atmosphere that is hard to find these days; moves kind of slowly but the tension continually grows so you know something (bad) is going to happen eventually although you have no idea what.

Cannot understand certain opinions here which, I have a feeling, have been written without even watching the film or, simply, for some unknown reasons, out of spite.

See it. It is really good.


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