He left with Blanca ( Elena Anaya), the Spanish beauty Tony brought home from the beach one day, only to watch his father seduce her from right under his nose. They are known everywhere, loved nowhere, except for a few hangers-on like Sam ( Hugh Dancy), a gay "walker" who accompanies Barbara after Brooks has left. Oh, but they all look so elegant! They know how to dress and how to behave (and misbehave) in the high-society watering holes of New York (1950s), Paris (1960s), Majorca and London (into the 1970s). Their son, Tony ( Eddie Redmayne), who narrates much of the story, is raised as her coddled darling, but feels little real love from either parent and grows into a narcissistic, hedonistic, inverted basket case. By the third generation, the fortune has produced Brooks, a vapid clotheshorse who nevertheless perhaps deserves better than a wife who is all pose and attitude, all brittle facade, deeply rotten inside. Brooks' grandfather invented Bakelite, used in everything from cooking utensils to nuclear bombs. The movie tells the true story of the marriage of Barbara Daly ( Julianne Moore) and Brooks Baekeland ( Stephen Dillane), who glittered erratically in the social circles of the 1940s through the 1960s.
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