Fresh
An intense, important motion picture.
Variety Staff, Variety
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Just one pillow on her bed... and just one desire in her heart.
1958 · 1h 48m · Approved
Drama
Directed by
Richard Brooks
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Overview
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.
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97%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
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.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
What a pack of trashy people these accomplished actors perform!
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
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.
TIME Magazine
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