CRITERION COLLECTION: SAFE

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• Release Year: 1995
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Julianne Moore gives a breakthrough performance as Carol White, a Los Angeles 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 profoundly unsettling work from the great American director Todd Haynes, Safe functions on multiple levels: as 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 you cannot see. This revelatory drama was named the best film of the 1990s in a Village Voice poll of more than fifty critics.
• Cast: Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley, Dean Norris, Julie Burgess, Ronnie Farer, Jodie Markell, Susan Norman, Martha Velez, Chauncey Leopardi, Saachiko, Tim Gardner, Wendy Haynes, Allan Wasserman, Jean St. James, Steven Gilborn, Janel Moloney, Brendan Dolan, John Apicella, Dana Anderson, Wendy Gayle, Cassy Friel, Frank Dent, Peter Crombie, Sarah Scott Davis, Beth Grant, Jo Wilkinson, Gerrielani Miyazaki, Edith Meeks, Francesca P. Roberts, Elinor O. Caplan, Joe Comando, Lorna Scott, Peter Friedman, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Tricia Dong, James Lyons, Mary Carver, April Grace, Eleanor Graham, Mitch Greenhill, James LeGros, Rio Hackford, Jessica Harper, Ravi Achar, Brandon Cruz, Todd Haynes
• Director: Todd Haynes
• Runtime: 1:59
• Company: American Playhouse Theatrical Films, Killer Films, Chemical Films, Good Machine, Kardana Productions, Channel Four Films
• Media Format: Movie