Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Just one pillow on her bed... and just one desire in her heart.
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.
- 7.6
- 1958
- Released
- 1h 48m
Paul Newman
Brick
Elizabeth Taylor
Maggie
Burl Ives
Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
Judith Anderson
Big Momma
Jack Carson
Gooper
Madeleine Sherwood
Mae
Vaughn Taylor
Deacon Davis
Larry Gates
Dr. Baugh
Brian Corcoran
Boy
Zelda Cleaver
Servant
Robert 'Rusty' Stevens
Sonny PollittHugh Corcoran
Buster Pollitt
Released
en
$3,000,000.00
$17,570,324.00
- #dying and death
- #depression
- #individual
- #suicide
- #jealousy
- #husband wife relationship
- #southern usa
- #mississippi river
- #plantation
- #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
Reviews
Yikes, but there's a lot of smouldering going on here... "Brick" (Paul Newman) is the former all-American boy type who has got himself injured and is married to "Maggie" (Elizabeth Taylor) with whom he has a pretty turbulent relationship based on mistrust. He is the son of the wealthy and tyrannical "Big Daddy" (Burl Ives) who is in turn married to the rather sheepish "Ida" (Judith Anderson) and t