Safe

Opens Friday, December 5, 2025

30th Anniversary 4K Restoration!

“I’m sorry. I know it’s not normal but I can’t help it.” Sheltered Los Angeles housewife Carol White’s (Julianne Moore) life of errands, baby showers and aerobics classes is shattered when she begins to experience terrifying symptoms following a home renovation. When modern medicine and psychotherapy fail to offer any relief, Carol takes refuge in a mysterious New Age community. Laced with creeping dread and arch social satire, Moore’s first collaboration with writer/director Todd Haynes is a disquieting masterpiece of angst and ambiguity

“This is a heartbreaking portrait of a woman in full, panicked retreat from life.” – The New Yorker

Best Film of the 90s, Village Voice Film Poll

Previously screened at 2022 as part of the series Movietown: Los Angeles Plays Itself and Other LA Visions.

• Country USA
• Year 1995
• Running Time 113 minutes
• Format 4K Restoration
• Distributor Sony Pictures Classics
• Director Todd Haynes
• Cast Julianne Moore, Peter Friedman, Xander Berkeley, Susan Norman, Kate McGregor-Stewart
• Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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