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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