Summary
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.
Additional Information
| Series | Criterion collection ; 739. |
| Subjects |
Pollution
-- Drama.
Allergy -- Drama. Fiction films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
| Publisher | [New York, New York] :The Criterion Collection,2014 |
| Edition | Special edition, Widescreen. |
| Other Titles | Suicide (Motion picture) |
| Contributors |
Haynes, Todd,
screenwriter, director. Vachone, Christine, producer. Zalanznick, Lauren, producer. Moore, Julianne, actor. Friedman, Peter, 1949- actor. Berkeley, Xander, 1955- actor. Norman, Susan, actor. McGregor-Stewart, Kate, actor. LeGros, James, actor. Tomney, Ed, composer. American Playhouse Theatrical Films, presenter. Chemical Films (Firm), production company. Good Machine (Firm), production company. Kardana Productions, production company. Channel Four Films (Firm), production company. Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher. |
| Participants/Performers |
Julianne Moore, Peter Friedman, Xander Berkeley, Susan Norman, Kate McGregor Stewart, James Legros. |
| Other Contributors |
Music, Ed Tomney ; editor, James Lyons ; director of photography, Alex Nepomniaschy. |
| Language |
English In English, with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired (SDH). |
| Notes |
Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 1995. Special features: audio commentary; conversation between Haynes and Moore; "The suicide", a 1978 short film by Haynes; New interview with Vachon; trailer; essay by critic Dennis Lim. |
| System Details |
DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; mono. |
| Description |
2 videodiscs (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| ISBN | 9781604659313 1604659319 |
| Other | Classic View |