Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984 film)

1984 adaptation of play by Tennessee Williams

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Genre	Drama
Based on	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1955 play by Tennessee Williams
Directed by	Jack Hofsiss
Starring	Jessica Lange Tommy Lee Jones Rip Torn Kim Stanley Penny Fuller David Dukes
Theme music composer	Tom Scott
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producer	Lou LaMonte
Producer	Phylis Geller
Editor	Roy Stewart
Running time	144 minutes
Production companies	Showtime Entertainment American Playhouse International Television Group KCET
Original release
Network	Showtime
Release	August 19, 1984 (1984-08-19)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a 1984 American made-for-television drama film directed by Jack Hofsiss, and starring Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Rip Torn, Kim Stanley, David Dukes, and Penny Fuller. The script, written by Tennessee Williams, is based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name. Produced by American Playhouse, it originally premiered on Showtime on August 19, 1984.

Plot

This adaptation revived the sexual innuendos that the 1958 film muted. The script is the substantially revised and restored version that Williams made for the 1974 Broadway revival, including the ending, which suggests that the protagonists' future together is anything but certain.

Cast

Jessica Lange as Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt
Tommy Lee Jones as Brick Pollitt
Rip Torn as Harvey "Big Daddy" Pollitt
Kim Stanley as Ida "Big Mama" Pollitt
Penny Fuller as Mae Flynn Pollitt
David Dukes as Cooper "Gooper" Pollitt
Macon McCalman as Reverend Tooker
Thomas Hill as Dr. Baugh
Fran Bennett as Sookey
Ami Foster as Polly Pollitt

Awards and nominations

Both Stanley and Fuller were nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries, and Stanley went on to win. It was a re-union of sorts for Stanley and Lange, who received Oscar nominations for playing mother and daughter in 1982's Frances. The film was also nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lighting Design / Lighting Direction for a Variety Special.

The film was also nominated for five CableACE Awards, specifically, Actor in a Theatrical or Dramatic Special (Rip Torn), Art Direction on Video Tape (John Retsek, David Jenkins, Showtime Networks), Theatrical Special (Lou LaMonte, Phylis Geller, Showtime Networks), Writing a Theatrical or Dramatic Special (Tennessee Williams, Showtime Networks), and Lighting Direction on Video Tape (Danny Franks, Ken Dettling, Showtime Networks).

References

External links

v t e Works by Tennessee Williams
Plays	Candles to the Sun (1936) Spring Storm (1937) Fugitive Kind (1937) Not About Nightingales (1938) Battle of Angels (1940) Auto-da-Fé (1941) The Glass Menagerie (1944) You Touched Me! (1945) Stairs to the Roof (1947) A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) Summer and Smoke (1948) The Rose Tattoo (1951) Camino Real (1953) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) Orpheus Descending (1957) Suddenly Last Summer (1958) Sweet Bird of Youth (1959) Period of Adjustment (1960) The Night of the Iguana (1961) The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963) The Seven Descents of Myrtle (1968) In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (1969) Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis? (1969) Out Cry (1971) Small Craft Warnings (1972) The Two-Character Play (1973) The Red Devil Battery Sign (1975) This Is (An Entertainment) (1976) Vieux Carré (1977) A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (1979) Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1980) The Notebook of Trigorin (1981) Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981) A House Not Meant to Stand (1982) In Masks Outrageous and Austere (1983)
Novels	The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1950) Moise and the World of Reason (1975)
Short story collections	Hard Candy: A Book of Stories (1954) Three Players of a Summer Game and Other Stories (1960) The Knightly Quest: a Novella and Four Short Stories (1966) One Arm and Other Stories (1967) Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed: a Book of Stories (1974)
Screenplays	The Glass Menagerie (1950) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) The Rose Tattoo (1955) Baby Doll (1956) Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) The Fugitive Kind (1959) Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966) Boom! (1968) The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (1957, filmed 2008)
Non-fiction	"The Catastrophe of Success" (1947) "A Streetcar Named Success" (1947)
Poetry	In the Winter of Cities (1956) Androgyne, Mon Amour (1977)
Film Adaptations	The Glass Menagerie (1950) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) The Rose Tattoo (1955) Baby Doll (1956) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) Suddenly Last Summer (1959) The Fugitive Kind (1960) Summer and Smoke (1961) The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (1961) Period of Adjustment (1962) Sweet Bird of Yourth (1962) The Night of the Iguana (1964) This Property Is Condemned (1966) Boom! (1968) Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970) The Glass Menagerie (1987) The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008)
TV Adaptations	Three by Tennessee (1958) The Glass Menagerie (1966) Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966) The Glass Menagerie (1973) The Migrants (1974) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984) A Streetcar Named Desire (1984) Sweet Bird of Youth (1989) Orpheus Descending (1990) A Streetcar Named Desire (1995) The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003)
Related	List of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams

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