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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"Just one pillow on her bed... and just one desire in her heart."

76
Audience
NR 1958 · 1h 48m
Drama
Starring Elizabeth Taylor · Paul Newman · Burl Ives
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An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

Theatrical
Aug 29, 1958
DVD / Blu-ray
Oct 1, 1997
Box Office
$17.6M
Budget
$3.0M
Return
5.9x
Director
Richard Brooks
Writers
Richard Brooks, James Poe
Producer
Lawrence Weingarten
Music
Charles Wolcott
Studio
Avon Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Keywords
individual suicide southern usa mississippi river depression jealousy husband wife relationship plantation dying and death patriarch based on play or musical inheritance sibling rivalry brother against brother cynical alcoholic dying father family conflict angry father son conflict southern gothic anxious daughter–in–law father–in–law relationship star athlete cotton plantation mississippi authoritarian condescending
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E
Elizabeth Taylor
Maggie Pollitt
P
Paul Newman
Brick Pollitt
B
Burl Ives
Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
J
Judith Anderson
Ida 'Big Mama' Pollitt
J
Jack Carson
Gooper Pollitt
M
Madeleine Sherwood
Mae Pollitt
V
Vaughn Taylor
Deacon Davis
L
Larry Gates
Dr. Baugh
B
Brian Corcoran
Boy (uncredited)
Z
Zelda Cleaver
Sookey (uncredited)
R
Robert 'Rusty' Stevens
Sonny (uncredited)
H
Hugh Corcoran
Buster (uncredited)
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