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Haynes, Todd, (screenwriter,, film director.). Vachone, Christine, (film producer.). Zalanznick, Lauren, (film producer.). Moore, Julianne, (actor.). Berkeley, Xander, 1955- (actor.). Norris, Dean, (actor.). Tomney, Ed, (composer (expression)). 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.). Arnold Semler, (production company.). Criterion Collection (Firm), (film distributor.). Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley, Dean Norris, Susan Norman, Kate McGregor Stewart, Mary Carver, Steven Gilborn, April Grace. (Cast).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781604659313
ISBN: 1604659319
Physical Description: videodisc
2 DVDs (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition: Two-DVD special edition.
Publisher: [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2014]

Content descriptions

General Note:	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, trailer.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Music, Ed Tomney ; editor, James Lyons ; director of photography, Alex Nepomniaschy.
Participant or Performer Note:	Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley, Dean Norris, Susan Norman, Kate McGregor Stewart, Mary Carver, Steven Gilborn, April Grace.
Target Audience Note:	MPAA rating: R; for a sex scene and brief language.
System Details Note:	DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1), mono.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Licensed for: home, library, classroom, ILL.
Language Note:	In English with optional English captions.