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- 2009
- PG-13
- Paladin
- 1 h 42 m
- 2009
- PG-13
- Paladin
- 1 h 42 m
Summary Set in the Roaring Twenties in Williams' home town of Memphis, the film tells the story of Fisher Willow a headstrong young heiress who chafes under the constraints of proper Southern society, and who rebels by asking the impoverished but handsome son of her father's caretaker, Jimmy Dobyne, to escort her to the major social events of th...
Directed By: Jodie Markell
Written By: Tennessee Williams
- 2009
- PG-13
- Paladin
- 1 h 42 m
- 2009
- PG-13
- Paladin
- 1 h 42 m
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
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6.6
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Summary Set in the Roaring Twenties in Williams' home town of Memphis, the film tells the story of Fisher Willow a headstrong young heiress who chafes under the constraints of proper Southern society, and who rebels by asking the impoverished but handsome son of her father's caretaker, Jimmy Dobyne, to escort her to the major social events of th...
Directed By: Jodie Markell
Written By: Tennessee Williams
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
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53% Mixed
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13% Negative
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2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
51
33% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
53% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
13% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
This film is the closest we're going to get to anything new by Williams, and it's a respectable effort.
With its strained, quasi-poetic language that fitfully tries to soar, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond is a significant, though less than monumental feat of reclamation.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
6.6
75% Positive
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25% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
6.6
75% Positive
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0% Mixed
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25% Negative
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My DVR recorded this movie because it was triggered by the keyword "Tennessee Williams." Watching it really highlighted what a great writer of dialogue and inner conflict he was--mainly because Chris Evans and especially Bryce Dallas Howard completely failed their material. The film is beautiful to look it, but it comes across as an undeservingly big-budget high school production. Howard misses every nuance of her character and just plunks out her lines in a half-attempted drawl, apparently without thinking about what they mean. If this was your first Williams production, then be sure to go back and watch the truly disturbing (if melodramatic) "Suddenly, Last Summer" or the standbys "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" or "A Streetcar Named Desire." Who underwrote this movie, anyway? Horrible.
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It's powerful drama. People who dislikes the movie, I think they just didn't get it. It's just there's the lack in describe the background issue of each characters. I mean, they're all talking about they're own past stories but never real telling us the real whole story, so I knew it's all about the present problem as the title of the movie, but for certain time, I got confused. But, recommended? #yes.
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The characters and themes are redolent of earlier and better Williams works, and the story unexpectedly putters out at the end--but seeing it now, you can't help but treasure the simple, lyrical dialogue and sure-handed narrative thrust.
Howard looks peachy, and actor-turned-director Jodie Markell sweats the details -- moonlight, honeyed accents -- but the brittle script resists restoration.
Whether Elia Kazan could have done something memorable with this script will remain an eternally open question. This film, though, is most effective as a reminder that Williams' works emerged from a certain time and place, and to approach them from another is fraught with peril.
The fragrant aroma of magnolias is undercut by the distinct smell of mothballs throughoutThe Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, an admirably earnest but curiously flat attempt to film a long-unproduced scenario by Tennessee Williams.
If Markell's instincts for script exhumation are questionable, she's the victim of even worse timing: Who thought releasing her film 10 days after Liv Ullmann and Cate Blanchett's praised-to-the-high-heavens "A Streetcar Named Desire" closed was a good idea?
This had to be one of the worse movies ive seen in a long time. It was literaly painful to set through. Tha script was obviously shelved for a reason. Also, I hate to trash the girl but Bryce is one of the worse actresses out there. I use to follow her career but shes proven over and over, she has nothing. Shame to because she seems like a sweet **** then again...remember her dad
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This had to be one of the worse movies ive seen in a long time. It was literaly painful to set through. Tha script was obviously shelved for a reason. Also, I hate to trash the girl but Bryce is one of the worse actresses out there. I use to follow her career but shes proven over and over, she has nothing. Shame to because she seems like a sweet **** then again...remember her daddy excelled behind the camera instead of in front of it
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Production Company
Constellation Entertainment,
Grand Army Entertainment,
Teardrop Productions
Release Date Dec 30, 2009
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating PG-13
Website
http://www.teardropdiamond.com/
Awards
Valladolid International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
