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A suburban housewife (Julianne Moore) suffers from a mysterious illness and seeks help at a clinic in New Mexico. Greg White: Xander Berkeley. Peter Dunning: Peter Friedman. Linda: Susan Norman. Claire: Kate McGregor-Stewart. Directed by Todd Haynes., A suburban housewife suddenly finds herself “allergic to the 20th century,” in this drama. Carol White is a typical upper-middle class suburban housewife. She lives with her husband and step-son in a lovely home in the San Fernando Valley. She is normal in every way as she socializes with friends, eats right, and keeps a good home. But she does have a nagging cough. The cough keeps getting worse and is followed by nosebleeds and violent seizures. The doctors are puzzled but conclude that she, like a growing number, has become hypersensitive to the chemical substances that surround us. Even a whiff of cologne can trigger an allergic reaction in Carol. To find treatment, Carol journeys to New Mexico and enrolls in the Wrenwood Institute, a New Age facility designed for healing people. It is headed by Peter, who promotes self-love., A suburban housewife suffers from a mysterious illness and seeks help at a clinic in New Mexico., Cult writer/director Todd Haynes’ film is the story of the destruction of a suburban housewife’s perfect life when she is attacked by an environmental sickness that literally makes her allergic to the environment., Julianne Moore plays an ordinary American housewife who suddenly becomes allergic to the 20th century, resulting in a breakdown of both her physical and mental health in Todd Haynes analogy for the increasing turning by Americans to ‘new age’ healings of all kinds.