Sweet Bird of Youth

Boy this is campy, but without quite enough verve to be a camp classic. Pauline Kael, right as usual: "This hysterical twaddle features a sadistic attack on Newman, engineered by Heavenly's father (Ed Begley), a crooked political boss, and a climactic telephone soliloquy by Page - we hear her part of a long-distance conversation with Walter Winchell, who convinces her that, far from being a flop in her last picture, she has scored her greatest hit. Rip Torn [is] also involved in the madness."

Nicemonsteretclol+barelypaidattention

They kinda wimped out on the ending but it's a great adaptation. I never really got Paul Newman until this

Geraldine Page <3

Interesting ending was not worth waiting for.

This movie was alright. The acting was really good but I didn't like the ending. I also found this movie took awhile to get going. There were some good moments so I am sitting on the fence on this one.

It seems like Tennessee Williams was only capable of producing melodrama--and of extreme variety at that--laced with or caused by drug abuse and physical abuse. This makes for a one trick pony that ends up being very hit or miss (mostly miss) depending on who's hands it's in. This one lies mostly in the miss category.

I guess they laced weed with meth back in the 60's.

The characters and themes are quite interesting, but it's such an ugly and poorly made film - which is surprising when I enjoyed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof so much. Blehhhh.

Score based on distant memory.