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A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951

Starring: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando

Directed by: Elia Kazan

Written by: Tennessee Williams

Language: English, Spanish

Country: USA

Runtime: 122 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:8.1

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The mood of A Streetcar Named Desire is sexy, emotional, and captivating. The plot centers around redemption, a crumbling marriage, and infidelity. It is a drama movie. Stylistically, A Streetcar Named Desire features an all-star cast and is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. A Streetcar Named Desire happens in the 1950s. It is adapted from a play. The movie is known for being groundbreaking, a classic, and a masterpiece. A Streetcar Named Desire is especially suggested for a date night.

Summary of A Streetcar Named Desire

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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Language:	English, Spanish
Country:	USA
Release date:	18 September 1951
Runtime:	122 min
Awards:	Academy Awards

Awards

Vivien Leigh for Best Actress at the 1951 Academy Awards

Karl Malden for Best Supporting Actor at the 1951 Academy Awards

Kim Hunter for Best Supporting Actress at the 1951 Academy Awards

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Vivien Leigh

as Blanche DuBois

Marlon Brando

as Stanley Kowalski

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Good Play, Middling Adaptation

The problem with films before the late 1960s is that the Hays Production Code put a considerable handicap on the depiction of adult themes, leaving the film industry at a juvenile stage compared with the larger literary world, which did not face the... Read and rate it

10.March.2011
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by: greenhorg
greenhorg rated this movie6/10Okay

Streetcar doesn't make sense to some people and does to others. It is perfect that Vivian Leigh was chosen for this part, especially with her image as Scarlett. I broke my heart to watch her in this role. She was a woman of romantic ideals having... Read and rate it

04.March.2011
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by: Eduardo Moreno
Eduardo Moreno rated this movie10/10Must See

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