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Movie Review for Streetcar Named Desire, A
Movie Review for
Streetcar Named Desire, A
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Streetcar Named Desire, A | | |
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15 Reviews total.
Release date: 1951
Run length: 122 mins.
Categories:
Drama
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Adaptation
Summary:
Set in the French Quarter of post WWII New Orleans, desperate and neurotic Blanche DuBois searches for someplace and someone to call her own when she is forced out of her hometown after trying to seduce a teenage boy whom she was teaching. What she finds is a wild town filled with characters more desperate than herself -- namley the brutish Stanley who is in love with Blanche's sister Stella and deeply mistrusts Blanche and her shadowy past.
Reviews of Streetcar Named Desire, A
By
Phil Villarreal
of Arizona Daily Star (8/0)
Brando's performance is probably the most influential in movie history for the way its raw natura...
By
Marjorie Baumgarten
of Austin Chronicle (8/0)
A wonderful screen drama.
By
Roger Ebert
of Chicago Sun-Times (8/0)
Despite the overwhelming power of Brando's performance, Streetcar is one of the great ensemble pi...
By
Jeffrey M. Anderson
of Combustible Celluloid (8/0)
Brando pulls off astonishing things as Stanley Kowalski, and Vivien Leigh gives a performance tha...
By
John J. Puccio
of DVDTown.com (8/0)
Streetcar should have been Vivien Leigh's picture, she's the main character, but it's Brando who ...
By
Walter Chaw
of Film Freak Central (8/0)
That melancholy we feel as it closes is a mourning for me that I'll never be able to see this fil...
Reviews of Streetcar Named Desire, A
By
Christopher Null
of filmcritic.com (8/0)
This is a film about passion, and the movie positively oozes it.
By
Robert Roten
of Laramie Movie Scope (8/0)
The classic adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play, featuring one of Marlon Brando's legendary...
By
Kevin N. Laforest
of Montreal Film Journal (8/0)
A Streetcar Named Desire is a fascinating, wrenching character study.
By
Dragan Antulov
of rec.arts.movies.reviews (8/0)
Thanks to the excellent text and superb actors, Kazan managed to create a very good film, but he ...
By
Tim Dirks
of Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films (8/0)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) is a subversive, steamy film classic that was adapted from Tennes...
By
Lloyd Rose
of Washington Post (8/0)
Brando's performance as Stanley is one of those rare screen legends that are all they're cracked ...
Reviews of Streetcar Named Desire, A
By
Chris Hicks
of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (7/1) No reference
The powerful performances remain untarnished by time.
By
Dennis Schwartz
of Ozus' World Movie Reviews (4/4) No reference
Lacks the poignancy you could almost swear was a given, considering it was adapted from an
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By
John A. Nesbit
of ToxicUniverse.com (7/1) No reference
Over a dozen Tennessee Williams’ plays have been translated on celluloid 41 times to date, yet no...
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