Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #11. Todd Haynes’ Carol

Carol

Director: Todd Haynes
Writer: Phyllis Nagy
Producers: Elizabeth Karlsen, Tessa Ross, Christine Vachon, Stephen Woolley
U.S. Distributor: The Weinstein Co.
Cast: Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchet, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler

If there is one time period that Todd Haynes owns…it’s in the neighborhood of the America 1950s. Far From Heaven and Mildred Pierce account for this. This Oscar-pegged foursome of Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchet, Sarah Paulson and Kyle Chandler should make Julianne Moore jealous.

Gist: Based on Patricia Highsmith’s “The Price of Salt”, this chronicles the burgeoning and tempestuous relationship between two very different women in 1950s NYC. Mara will play a 20-something clerk working in a department store and dreaming of a better life who falls for an older, married woman (Blanchett) who is essentially a trapped wife in a dead marriage who’s desperate to leave but also fears losing her daughter if she does. Chandler plays Harge, the Blanchett character’s jealous husband.

Release Date: Mid-march filming is scheduled, meaning an end of year showing is possible. Depends on the Weinstein strategy.

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