Far from Heaven is a historical romantic drama movie set in conservative 1950s suburbia, following a housewife Cathy Whitaker, whose idyllic life reeks of etiquette and decorum and boasts a calendar ...

Was it a campy look back at the dull 1950s, when women wore pearls while they vacuumed and never had a passionate feeling? We could laugh at it and feel smug in our more enlightened age. Instead, I ...

OF ALL the 20th-century decades, the 1950s gets it worst, in terms of ridicule, in the movies. When a story is set during that time, we mentally prepare ourselves for irony or black comedy. We expect ...