Savage Grace

Savage Grace is a dramatic film based on the novel of the same name which chronicles the shocking Barbara Daly Baekeland murder case in 1972. Directed by Tom Kalin the film premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

Fast Facts

1. Directed by: Tom Kalin
2. Produced by: Pamela Koffler
3. Starring: Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane, Eddie Redmayne
4. Distributed by IFC Films
5. Running time 96 minutes

The Barbara Daly Baekeland Story

Barbara Daly Baekeland was a wealthy woman who had a strange, oedipal relationship with her homosexual son Antony Baekeland. The two shared everything from intimate experiences to a sexual relationship which ended when her twenty five year old son on November 11, 1972 by a kitchen knife in her London home. According to reports his mother tried to cure him of his sexuality by having an affair with him which led to the murder. Antony was institutionalized at Broadmoor Hospital for the murder but was released in 1980 and moved in with his grandmother. He then stabbed her, although she survived. Antony committed suicide in 1981 at Rikers Island by suffocating himself with a plastic bag.

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