Carol Poster
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Release Date: November 20th, 2015

R|1 hr 58 min

Plot Summary
Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) spots the beautiful, elegant Carol (Cate Blanchett) perusing the doll displays in a 1950s Manhattan department store. The two women develop a fast bond that becomes a love with complicated consequences.

Cast: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Jake Lacy, John Magaro, Cory Michael Smith, Carrie Brownstein, Kevin Crowley

Director: Todd Haynes

Genres: Drama, Romance

Production Co: Killer Films, Larkhark Films Limited, Number 9 Films

Distributors: Weinstein Co., Weinstein Co.

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  • 100
    Steven ReaPhiladelphia Inquirer

    Mara and Blanchett are each extraordinary, working in the most organic and soul-stirring ways. show more

  • 90
    Joe MorgensternWall Street Journal

    Loneliness and longing are at the center of these two women’s lives, at least for a while, and they’re expressed by nuance and implication in a pair of superb performances, and by a lovely evocation of the period. show more

  • 90
    Todd McCarthyThe Hollywood Reporter

    Blanchett makes an indelible impression as a woman who, through breeding, intense personal cultivation and social expectations, has brilliantly mastered the skill of navigating through life. show more

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