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Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (2023)104 minDocumentaryRating 60/100

Rock Hudson was one of Hollywood’s most celebrated leading men of the 1950s and ‘60s, whose diagnosis and eventual death from AIDS in 1985 shocked the world. This intimate documentary explores the story of the iconic actor who was forced to live a double life—one whose public persona was carefully manufactured by his handlers and orchestrated by the studio system—while fearing a potentially career-ending discovery of his private life as a gay man.

Cast: Rock Hudson, Joe Carberry, Tim Turner, Lee Garlington, Paul Garlington, Ken Jillson, Ken Maley

Director: Stephen Kijak