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- 1962
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 2 h
- 1962
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 2 h
Summary A drifter and a faded film star, both traumatized by Hollywood, arrive to the guy's hometown, where the old bitter memories revive again.
Directed By: Richard Brooks
Written By: Tennessee Williams, Richard Brooks
- 1962
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 2 h
- 1962
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 2 h
Sweet Bird of Youth
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Summary A drifter and a faded film star, both traumatized by Hollywood, arrive to the guy's hometown, where the old bitter memories revive again.
Directed By: Richard Brooks
Written By: Tennessee Williams, Richard Brooks
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Metascore
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Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
53
25% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
75% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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It's a good transcription, though sadly bowdlerized. [02 Jul 2000, p.29]
Sweet Bird of Youth is a tamer and tidied but arresting version of Tennessee Williams' Broadway play. It's a glossy, engrossing hunk of motion picture entertainment, slickly produced by Berman.
Just like the play, the first half is a delicious, hotel-room-set duel of desperate characters, while the second half goes awry. [01 Dec 1989, p.F18]
Hysterical twaddle.
Most of it comes across as overheated nonsense, but Page's egomaniacal telephone soliloquy at the film's climax is reason enough to tune in.
Sweet Bird of Youth, for all its graphics and the vigorous performance of its top roles, has the taint of an engineered soap opera, wherein the soap is simply made of lye, that's all.
[Brooks's] second Williams adaptation (1962) is literally a form of emasculation that offers little indication of what made the original play interesting (especially in Elia Kazan’s stage production), despite the fact that Paul Newman and Geraldine Page are called on to reprise their original roles—as a hustler returning to his southern hometown and a Hollywood has-been—and do a fair job with Brooks’s hopeless script.
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Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
David di Donatello Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
