We see them in the Spanish resort of Cadaques in 1967, where the now-teenaged Tony (Eddie Redmayne) is having a tentative heterosexual encounter with a girl named Blanca (Elena Anaya). Barbara is drinking and chattering and clearly getting on her icy husband's nerves, as is their squalling infant son. We see Barbara (Julianne Moore) and Brooks (Stephen Dillane) in New York in 1946, dressing for dinner at the Stork Club. In adapting that book into a 97-minute movie, director Tom Kalin has discarded all but the most telling moments. This horrific narrative was recounted in numbing detail in 1985, in a nearly 500-page oral history called "Savage Grace: The True Story of a Doomed Family," by Natalie Robins and Steven M.
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