Friday, June 1, 2018

June Pick: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof



After brisk voting on whether to choose Cat on a Hot Tin Roof or Oceans 8 as our June flick, the winner was Cat by a whisker. 

We'll be seeing it next Tuesday, June 5, at the Yonge-Dundas Cineplex for the 1:30 screening. As always, we'll try to gather near the box office about 20 minutes earlier. Stragglers should just go in and watch the movie on their own. Afterwards, those who wish to nosh & natter will do so at Milestones (across from the box office).

Cat is an unforgettable film that's remained popular since it debuted back in 1958. Like many other MC members, I love it and have seen it on TV through the years, but am looking forward to watching it on the big screen. The tension between the main and even the secondary characters never ends in Tennessee Williams' taught script. After seeing it we can discuss a crucial point in the original version that was too much for the censors of the day. Hint: It involves the character named Skipper.

Now, because wonderful Paul Newman doesn't appear on the poster above, I'm treating us to a photo of him here:



SYNOPSIS: Set in the "plantation home in the Mississippi Delta"[2] of Big Daddy Pollitt, a wealthy cotton tycoon, the film examines the relationships among members of Big Daddy's family, primarily between his son Brick and Maggie the "Cat", Brick's wife.It is the story of a Southern family in crisis, especially the husband Brick and wife Margaret (usually called Maggie or "Maggie the Cat"), and their interaction with Brick's family over the course of one evening's gathering at the family estate in Mississippi. The party is to celebrate the birthday of patriarch Big Daddy, "the Delta's biggest cotton-planter",[2]and his return from the Ochsner Clinic with what he has been told is a clean bill of health. 
Maggie, determined and beautiful, has escaped a childhood of poverty to marry into the wealthy Pollitts, but finds herself unfulfilled. The family is aware that Brick has not slept with Maggie for a long time, which has strained their marriage. Brick, an aging football hero, infuriates her by ignoring his brother Gooper's attempts to gain control of the family fortune. Brick's indifference and his drinking have escalated with the suicide of his friend Skipper. Maggie fears that Brick's malaise will ensure that Gooper and his wife Mae inherit Big Daddy's estate.

Through the evening, Brick, Big Daddy and Maggie—and the entire family—separately must face the issues which they have bottled up inside.Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a play by Tennessee Williams. One of Williams's more famous works and his personal favorite,[1] the play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955. 

TRAILER: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5485dc

REVIEW: https://www.nytimes.com/1958/09/19/archives/the-fur-flies-in-cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof-talent-galore-found-in-music.html

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