All That Heaven Allows DVD – Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson

Cary Scott (Jane Wyman) is a well-to-do widow gradually re-entering a social life amongst her mostly dull country club peers. Her only apparent enjoyment in life comes from weekend visits from her college-age children. Cary then meets a handsome younger man Ron (Rock Hudson) who owns a small landscaping business. Ron is a follower of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and “”hears a different drummer”” enjoying a life focused on nature; he is deliberately uninterested in the gossipy opinions of others. Their romance causes clashes and tensions between Cary her children and the country club folk.