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    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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    1958     Drama    
    USA
    1h 48min
    R
    13+
    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA.
    PG
    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA.
    14A
    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA.
    PG
    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA.
    14A
    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA.
    PG
    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA.
    ·
    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA.

    The fifth Tennessee Williams play to reach the screen, wealthy Mississippi plantation owner Big Daddy Pollitt, unaware that he's dying of cancer and disturbed by the strained and childless marriage of his favored alcoholic son Brick and his other son, Gooper, whose wife is about to bring forth another in the endless line of little "no-neck monsters," celebrates his sixty-fifth birthday with his family. Brick's wife, Maggie, beautiful and desirable, tries unsuccessfully to coax her husband away from the bottle, while alternately enticing him and taunting him about his obsession with his deceased best friend and the guilt about their relationship. The seamy tensions reach a climax when the truth of Big Daddy's health is revealed, and he and Brick manage to resolve their differences.

    Directed byRichard Brooks
    Written byRichard Brooks, Tennessee Williams
    CompanyMetro-Goldwyn-MayerMetro-Goldwyn-MayerMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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    Elizabeth Taylor
    Paul Newman
    Burl Ives
    Judith Anderson
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