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.
24 September 1915, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
14 June 1909, Hunt City, Illinois, USA
10 February 1897, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
26 January 1925, Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
13 November 1922, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
27 October 1910, Carman, Manitoba, Canada
22 February 1911, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
27 February 1932, Hampstead, London, England, UK
December 22, 2010
Classics-loving teens will appreciate family melodrama.
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
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.
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.
May 20, 2003
What a pack of trashy people these accomplished actors perform!
April 08, 2008
An intense, important motion picture.
June 27, 2011
...like watching a melodrama in a sauna. It's just too much.
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.
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.
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
Director Brooks skilfully elicits the best from his performers and script with the result that there were Oscars nominations for all concerned.
