All That Heaven Allows

A 1955 American melodrama film directed by Douglas Sirk, produced by Ross Hunter, and adapted from a story by Edna L. Lee and Harry Lee, starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson as a well-to-do widow and a younger, down-to-earth gardener who falls in love, sparking social complications and disapproval from her family and country club friends. The film follows the tragic consequences of their romance and Cary's ultimate realization that she no longer wants to be dictated by others.