A Streetcar Named Desire PG

...Blanche, who wanted so much to stay a lady...
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  • Rated: PG
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 9, 2010
  • Originally Released: 1951
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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Memorable Quotes and Dialog:

"Stella! Hey, Stella!"
"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1951 - Best Actress: Vivien Leigh
Academy Awards 1951 - Best Supporting Actor: Karl Malden
Academy Awards 1951 - Best Supporting Actress: Kim Hunter

Entertainment Reviews:

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User Ratings: 55,064
it's a close-to-definitive example of how to make a great play work on film, for all the very slight air of Hollywood compromise. Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Nov 14, 2008
5 stars out of 5 -- Simply a masterful adap of Tennessee Williams' sultry, searing play and an affirmation of Marlon Brando's acting genius...
Total Film
Jun 1, 2006
...STREETCAR is one of the great ensemble pieces in the movies...
Chicago Sun-Times
Nov 12, 1993
Vivien Leigh's virtuoso portrayal was the year's finest acting...in the same picture Marlon Brando gives a brilliant and appalling performance as a primeval brute. Full Review
Maclean's Magazine
Nov 25, 2019
Rating: 3/5 -- The film is perhaps best regarded as an intelligent and engaged recreation of the original Broadway experience, in which Jessica Tandy first played the role. There's no denying the awful horror and pity of the final scene. Full Review
Guardian
Nov 14, 2008
... a Hollywood landmark, both for pushing the envelope of subject matter allowed on screen by the censors and for showcasing the more naturalistic "method" approach to performance ... Full Review
Seanax.com
May 19, 2012
Rating: 2/5 -- There's an inevitable staginess to Tennessee Williams' devastating portrait of delusion and cruelty, but director Elia Kazan catches the squalid, claustrophobic atmosphere of a New Orleans tenement just right. Full Review
Independent (UK)
Nov 14, 2008

Product Description:

Tennessee Williams based his screenplay on Oscar Saul's adaptation of Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in a grimy New Orleans project. The story of the fragile sentimentalism of a former prostitute who visits her sister only to be taunted mercilessly by her childish brother-in-law. Academy Award Nominations: 12, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Marlon Brando), and Best Screeplay. Academy Awards: 4, including Best Actress (Vivien Leigh), Best Supporting Actress (Kim Hunter), and Best Supporting Actor (Karl Malden). The director's cut contains three minutes of previously censored footage.

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  • UPC: 883929159871
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