In Depression-era North Carolina, the barren wife (Jennifer Lawrence) of an ambitious timber baron (Bradley Cooper) learns that she cannot ever bear children after she suffers a miscarriage with their first child. Then she sets out to murder the woman who bore her husband an illegitimate son.
1973, Bury, Lancashire, England, UK
26 June 1985, Bucharest, Romania
22 July 1967, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
11 October 1966, Brno, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
7 September 1966, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
14 January 1978, London, England, UK
8 May 1979, Nové Mesto na Morave, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
28 December 1949, Dundee, Scotland, UK
30 January 1979, Brno, Czechoslovakia
25 February 1960, Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
18 April 1961, Brno, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
5 January 1975, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1 May 1985, Prague, Czech Republic
24 September 1959, Duchcov, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
21 November 1969
31 October 1974, Sweden
21 July 1977, Bootle, Liverpool, England, UK
January 24, 2016
When Rhys Ifans doing a Carolina accent is the best thing in your movie, well... Maybe it's time to call the whole thing off.
March 27, 2015
Given these unpromising circumstances, I was expecting something truly awful, and perhaps that might have been more fun to watch than this lugubrious period piece. The production values and the costumes are the true stars.
March 27, 2015
A flat-out disaster, the kind of film that its cast and crew hope gets buried as quickly as possible as they race to move on to other projects.
November 10, 2015
It's an odd misfire from two actors at the peak of their game, but a misfire nonetheless.
March 26, 2015
The actors don't just look uncomfortable in their period duds, they also look uneasy in their own skins, which is a feat for two such natural, physically confident screen performers.
November 12, 2015
Serena is simply a one-off botch.
January 01, 2016
Well, Serena isn't great, but it's better than the lousy reputation that precedes it.
March 27, 2015
In other words, a lot of people realized they had an epic clunker on their hands.
April 11, 2016
The narrative has the choppy quality of a badly bowdlerised book, and the result is not bad so much as boring - and best thought of as a tree, fallen in the forest, that nobody heard.
