Top Five Roles in which Julianne Moore Plays a Troubled Mid-20th-Century Housewife
by Ernie on 13/08/10 at 11:00 am
5. A Single Man (2009): a middle-aged divorcee unhappy about how her life has turned out, in love with her ex-lover, a suicidal gay man mourning the death of his lover.
4. The Hours (2002): a suicidal, pregnant, lesbian housewife trapped in a suburban hell of conformity and repression and despised by her gay son.
3. The End of the Affair (1999): a middle-aged housewife whose ex-lover becomes obsessed with her.
2. The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio (2005): a middle-aged housewife with a flair for advertising but is unable to have a career while she is the mother of ten and married to an abusive alcoholic.
1. Far From Heaven (2002): a middle-aged housewife and mother of two who is married to a gay man but in love with a black man at a time when interracial romance was nigh impossible.
Extra: Boogie Nights (1997): a middle-aged, divorced housewife and mother who spends most of her time being a stoned porn star. But since it takes place in the 1970s, it’s too late to fit into this list.
Ernie
Aug 13th, 2010
Heather O’Donnell: My man! How could you forget Safe? Unless it’s not mid-century enough.
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