Peyton Place (1957)
Directed by Mark Robson
In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.
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“The Dressmaker” doesn’t so much change the pattern of this “Peyton Place” style story as render it ugly and humorless.
There’s an X-Files meets Peyton Place vibe here, a suburban monster-of-the-week episode that spills out to feature length…
Margot buries herself under heavy black eyeliner and a pageboy haircut that should have been retired around the time Mia Farrow moved out of "Peyton Place."
With its sprawling narrative that covers two states, two generations and multiple storylines suffused with sex, violence, murder, suicide, the sins of the past and present and a wide array of seemingly disparate characters who all wind up tying together in some way or another, “The Devil All the Time,” Antonio Campos’s adaptation of the Donald Ray Pollack novel resembles nothing so much as a low-rent and increasingly ludicrous southern-fried take on Fifties-era soap operas like “Peyton Place,” though it is unimaginable that it could have gotten away with even a fraction of the lurid miseries that it unleashes on viewers over the course of its extended and ultimately punishing 138-minute running time.
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That’s what Paul Feig’s deliciously trashy A Simple Favor is: Just the right mixture of movie of the week, Diabolique, Peyton Place, Alfred Hitchcock, and The Thin Man.
Think “Peyton Place” as staged by the Adrian Lyne of “Fatal Attraction.”
Think of "Peyton Place," "Lolita," "From Here to Eternity" and "Forever Amber."