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Having It All Would Cost Her Everything.
Having It All Would Cost Her Everything.
Drama - 2011
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She gave her daughter everything. But everything was not enough. Academy Award® winner Kate Winslet ('The Reader') stars in this riveting five-part adaptation of James M. Cain's classic novel about a uniquely independent woman who finds herself newly divorced in Depression-era California. Detailing her struggle to carve out a new life for herself and her family, the miniseries explores her unreasonable devotion to her insatiable daughter, as well as the complex relationships she shares with the indolent men in her life. Co-starring Evan Rachel Wood, Guy Pearce and Brian F. O'Byrne.
Director:
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Todd Haynes
Cast:
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Kate Winslet
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Guy Pearce
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Evan Rachel Wood
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Mare Winningham

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Rated:
TV-MA
Runtime:
336 min
Release date:
27 Mar 2011
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$20
Awards:
Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 14 wins & 37 nominations.

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
The miniseries is far more faithful to the tawdry class shenanigans of Cain's novel than any of the author's characters are to each other.
– J. Hoberman,
Village Voice,
22 Mar 2011
rotten:
[Haynes'] painstaking effort to restore every brushstroke of the author's original story paints over the ambiguities of class and social ambition that play out within the Pierce family dynamic.
– Alessandra Stanley,
New York Times,
25 Mar 2011
fresh:
What can you say about an HBO miniseries adapted from a 1941 novel that follows the rise and fall of an independent woman during the Great Depression? Let's try "perfection," which is what director Todd Haynes achieves in his loyal, lyrical adaptation.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar 2011
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