Tom Kalin’s long awaited new feature is based on the award winning book of the same title, and like his earlier and highly influential Swoon, draws its material from a real life crime story tinged with sexual undertones. Savage Grace tells the incredible true story of Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland (Stephen Dillane), the dashing heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune.

A red-haired, charismatic beauty, Barbara is still no match for her well-bred more...