Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1958 • 108 minutes

About this movie

Academy Award winners Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman star in theclassic screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winningplay Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.As the family of a wealthy Southern patriarch (Burl Ives--The BigCountry) informs his children that he is dying of cancer, lies andsecrets surface that threaten to rip the family apart. The doctors saythe growing cancer is in remission. One self-seeking son claims to lovehis father. And favorite son, Brick (Newman--Road to Perdition), drinks ,won't have sex with the beautiful wife (Taylor--Who's Afraid of VirginiaWoolf?) who adores him . . . and refuses to honestly confront the reasonwhy.