Sam Green Īfter the film opened, Baekeland's former lover, Samuel Adams Green (played by Dancy in the film), wrote an article pointing out that elements in the film were factually inaccurate, such as the ménage à trois scene of Barbara, Antony, and Sam having sex. Savage Grace was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay in 2008. Peter Bradshaw writing in The Guardian gave the film four out of five stars, describing it as "a gripping, coldly brilliant and tremendously acted movie." Accolades The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has a 38% of approval, based on 89 reviews - the consensus reads "though visually compelling, the lamentable characters in Savage Grace make for difficult viewing." Metacritic, another review aggregator, reported the film had an average score of 51 out of 100, based on 28 reviews. She has been infected with the Urbat curse (werewolfiness), she has forsaken her family (granted her brother just tried to kill her), and she was forced to kill Daniel, the man she loves. Natalie Robinss books include Copelands Cure, The Girl Who Died Twice, and Alien Ink. Grace has sacrificed everything for Daniel. A spellbinding tale of money and madness, incest and matricide, Savage Grace is the saga of Brooks and Barbara Baekeland - beautiful, rich, worldly - and their handsome, gentle son, Tony.
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The story begins with Antony's birth and follows the family to the time of his arrest for the murder of his mother.Ĭritics gave the film mixed reviews. In The Savage Grace, her Dark Divine series comes to a thrilling and bittersweet conclusion.
The film is based on the true story of Barbara Daly Baekeland (Moore), her husband Brooks Baekeland (Dillane), heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune, and their only child Antony (Redmayne), who was diagnosed with schizophrenia.