Safe

Name: Safe
Genre: Drama
Released: 1995
Duration: 119 min
Cast: Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley, Dean Norris, Julie Burgess, Ronnie Farer

Todd Haynes19951h 59mDrama

Why we chose it

Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore both broke through with this story of a suburban wife so troubled by the chemicals around her that she flees the toxins and slowly cuts herself off. It’s horror without a monster, where no one gives chase and nothing leaps out at you, and all that’s left is unease.

Synopsis

It’s 1987 in Los Angeles, and Carol White has a big house in the suburbs, a husband, a stepson and very little to do. After the house is renovated, her body starts reacting: she coughs in the car, chokes at a baby shower and gets a nosebleed at the hairdresser’s. When she collapses at a dry cleaner’s that is being sprayed for insects, she becomes convinced that chemicals are to blame.