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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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2hrs 2min
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1984
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Image Entertainment
Synopsis: Coproduced by Showtime and PBS, the 1984 TV version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is based on Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Price winning play, previously filmed in 1958 and 1979. Jessica Lange stars as Maggie "the Cat", the frustrated, overheated wife of alcoholic former football jock Brick (Tommy Lee Jones). All of Brick's family have gathered for the 65th birthday party of Big Daddy (Rip Torn), and to celebrate the news that the family's patriarch is not suffering from cancer, as earlier reported. Hostilities ... Full Synopsis
Featured Cast
Maggie Pollitt, Maggie
Brick Pollitt, Brick
Big Daddy Pollitt, Big Daddy
Big Mama Pollitt, Big Mama
Photos
Elizabeth Taylor in 1958's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
Paul Newman, Sept. 26, age 83: Film fans -- and just about everyone else -- were in deep mourning...
Ned Beatty at the "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Play Opening
Paul Newman, left, and Elizabeth Taylor in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958) (Holland/Retna UK)
Ashley Judd at the opening night of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
Elizabeth Taylor in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (Everett Collection)
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