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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