Suddenly, Last Summer

01/06/1993

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1hr 22min

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Drama

,TV Movie

Television Adaptation of the Tennessee Williams classic.

STORY

Catharine Holly, a poor relation of a prominent New Orleans family, seems to be insane after her cousin Sebastian dies under mysterious circumstances on a trip to Europe. Sebastian's mother, Violet Venable, trying to cloud the truth about her son's homosexuality and death, threatens to lobotomize Catharine for her incoherent utterances relating to Sebastian's demise. Under the influence of a truth serum, Catharine tells the gruesome story of Sebastian's death by cannibalism at the hands of locals whose sexual favors he sought, using Catharine as a device to attract the young men (as he had earlier used his mother).

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Maggie Smith
  • Natasha Richardson
  • Rob Lowe
  • Richard E. Grant
  • Moira Redmond

    Directors

  • Richard Eyre
  • Simon Curtis

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • KQED
  • BBC
  • Columbia Pictures

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English