Tennessee Williams sure can break your heart. Even in this, considered not his best work (written in 1957), his characters scorch the screen with their pitiable desperation. Bryce Dallas Howard (Ron's daughter) is Fischer Willow the girl with the lost diamond earring, a 1920s southern debutante whose vulnerability is hidden under a hard-crusted veneer. Her God on Earth, the object of her desire, is the son of an alcoholic father and a mentally ill mother. (Oh, so Williamsesque.) Her genteel family doesn't approve even though he is a man of formidable character. When Fisher loses one of her aunt's $5,000 earrings, he finds himself in the center of the drama, pulled by two women who love him to distraction: The wealthy, willful heiress and an equally headstrong "dirt poor" rival, who's been corrupted by poverty as much as Fischer has by privilege. It's a steamy story, and oh, so satisfying.
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The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
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Writers: Tennessee Williams (screenplay)
Plot: Tells the story of Fisher Willow, the disliked 1920s Memphis dobutante daughter of a plantation owner...
Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard - Fisher, Chris Evans - Jimmy, Will Patton - Mr. Dobyne, Ann-Margret - Cornelia, Mamie Gummer - Julie, Jessica Collins - Vinnie, Ellen Burstyn - Addie, Peter Gerety - Mr. Van Hooven, Marin Ireland - Esmeralda, Zoe Perry - Mathilde, Barbara Garrick - Mrs. Dobyne, Zach Grenier - Mr. Fenstermaker, Laila Robins - Mrs. Fenstermaker, Susan Blommaert - Addie's Nurse, Carol Sutton - Susie
Runtime: USA:102 min | Canada:102 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
Country: USA
Language: English
Company: Constellation Entertainment
Links: IMDb Profile
Categories: Drama, Romance
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For those of us who don't get to the theater much and depend on the cinema for our acting thrills, this film is just downright fun. The fact that it got made in this century is a pleasant and amusing surprise. Like "An Education", this film features a few strong unknown cast that are outstanding. It also features phenomenal stars Ellen Burstyn and Ann-Margret in wonderful, surprising cameos. Chris Evans shines-has their been a sexier role for a young actor? Bryce Dallas Howard is a wonder, and really pulls off a very demanding leading place in this film. Now blink you eyes and the plot takes you to a movie experience from before 1950. But that is exactly what is so fun. Southern style romance, twisted identical twins, dead bodies up the stairs-it is also somewhat predicable but very lovingly portrayed. I really like this film, exactly because I love the experience of pulling up to a movie theater on a cold winter night a getting the same good time my parents did in their day-a warm,...
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