Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his wealthy father, Big Daddy, who is slowly dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
July 30, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA
26 January 1925, Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
13 November 1922, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
22 November 1909, Los Angeles, California, USA
July 28, 1947 in Santa Monica, California, USA
24 September 1915, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
27 February 1932, Hampstead, London, England, UK
14 June 1909, Hunt City, Illinois, USA
22 February 1911, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
May 14, 1948 in Montebello, California, USA
November 25, 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
10 February 1897, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
10 June 1949, Santa Monica, California, USA
12 April 1906, Arkansas, USA
27 October 1910, Carman, Manitoba, Canada
24 January 1910, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
April 08, 2008
The performances are the thing in this film version of the Tennessee Williams stage triumph, led by Ives, repeating his stage role like a force of nature.
April 08, 2008
An intense, important motion picture.
June 27, 2011
...like watching a melodrama in a sauna. It's just too much.
April 08, 2008
Director Brooks skilfully elicits the best from his performers and script with the result that there were Oscars nominations for all concerned.
December 22, 2010
Classics-loving teens will appreciate family melodrama.
October 01, 2008
A formaldehyded tabby that sits static while layer after layer of its skin is peeled off, life after life of its nine lives unsentimentally destroyed.
April 08, 2008
Burl Ives and Judith Anderson are highly entertaining as the nightmare parents, Big Daddy and Big Mama, and Jack Carson has one of his last good roles as Newman's competitive older brother.
July 06, 2010
It is a fine piece of acting by Paul Newman, the Southern gentlemen portraying his fragile and haunted character with an unparalleled amount of soul, which he had imbedded in many of his characters.
May 20, 2003
What a pack of trashy people these accomplished actors perform!
February 07, 2008
Richard Brooks' screen version of Tennessee Williams' play is compromised (no mention of homosexuality), but it's well directed and deftly acted by Paul Newman and Liz Taylor, both at their sexiest.
June 24, 2006
As so often with adaptations of Williams, it frequently errs on the side of overstatement and pretension, but still remains immensely enjoyable as a piece of cod-Freudian codswallop.
