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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9786305081906
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 6305081905
Label: Image Entertainment
Languages: English (Original Language), PCM Mono
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: August 05, 1998
Running Time: 144 minutes
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1984
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Editorial Review:
It sounds like perfect casting: Jessica Lange and Tommy Lee Jones do one of Tennessee Williams's most powerful works. But this filmed stage play doesn't quite fulfill the promise. Lange certainly has all the right ingredients: the sensual moves, the fluttering neuroses, the scheming-with-a-smile, but it doesn't quite ring true. It's as if the star and her director failed to make the full transition from stage acting to the smaller, more nuanced acting demands of film. Jones is badly miscast as Brick--the character is mopey and riven with insecurities, while Jones's forte is garrulous confidence. It feels like he's acting with a muzzle on. Rip Torn is terrific as Big Daddy (his scenes with Jones are the best in the piece) and the rest of the cast is all up to the game. Tennessee Williams reworked the script for this American Playhouse production, restoring some sexual frankness lost in earlier productions. The piece has some real fireworks, and not just in the places you might expect. Lange and Jones would team up again to better effect in the 1994 drama Blue Sky. --Geof Miller
In a sordid tale of faded dreams and family feuds, Tennessee Williams delivers perhaps his greatest play. Tommy Lee Jones and Jessica Lange star in this award-winning adaptation.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Not many folks know about this TV version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. I have been looking for it everywhere and finally found it on Amazon. I think it's a fabulous rendition of the Tenessee Williams play featuring an ex-football jock, his frustrated wife and the dynamics of a family hankering for a piece of a dying man's fortune. Tommy Lee Jones and Jessica Lang are outstanding as Brick and Maggie the Cat.
I also own the Paul Newman/Elizabeth Taylor version of this play. It's an undisputed ... Read More
Rating:  - Jones and Lange smolder, Torn founders
The acting in this is fine; Lange is delectably sultry, Jones is excellent as a washed-up drunk.
But the accent Rip Torn uses in this has got to be the worst Southern accent ever committed to film (and that includes Kevin Costner's execrably awful accent in Oliver Stone's 'JFK'). Sounds like Foghorn Leghorn channelling Leon Redbone. I broke up laughing at how bad it was.
Agreed, this is much better than the Taylor-Newman-Ives Hollywood piece. But viewers might want to check out ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent reendition of Williams' classic play
I can remember watching this on Showtime back in 1984, and both then and now, I can not deny just how much justice the cast and crew did to Williams' classic play of alcoholism, homosexuality, death, and so on. Jessica Lange is incredibly sexy as the sexually frustrated Maggie the Cat, while Tommy Lee Jones is superb as her alcoholic ex-sports announcer husband, Brick. Gorgeous set designs and powerful acting from the entire accomplished cast make for a wonderfully entertaining, updated version of a modern classic.
Rating: - The Story Finally Makes Sense
Of course everyone will compare this 1984 remake of one of Tennessee Williams' best plays with the 1950's version starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman. The director, actors and everyone else involved in this production have nothing to be embarrassed about for this is a fine movie indeed. In fairness to the Taylor-Newman movie, because of the censorship of that repressed era, the plot does not make a lot of sense. These actors though have the advantage of working with a story that Mr. Williams had revised so that ... Read More
Rating: - accept no imitations. THIS is the best version ever done
One simply couldn't ask for a better incarnation of 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' than this one.
Both the Amazon reviewer for this film, (and some of the subsequent Amazon audience reviewers), exhibit really stellar blindness in critiquing this tv adaptation of a fine Williams play.
Did someone actually submit that the simpering 1958 version was still better? Come ON. Holy hannah. That absurd piece of Hollywood fluff, which did its best to dodge every subtext the play had to offer? Gimme a break.
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