2011
Unrated
First Run Features
1 h 15 m

2011
Unrated
First Run Features
1 h 15 m

Summary Mardi Gras, drag balls and politics–where else could these elements come together but in New Orleans? Interweaving archival footage and contemporary interviews, The Sons of Tennessee Williams charts the evolution of the gay Mardi Gras krewe scene over the decades, illuminating the ways in which its emergence was a seminal factor in the c...

Directed By: Tim Wolff

2011
Unrated
First Run Features
1 h 15 m

2011
Unrated
First Run Features
1 h 15 m

The Sons of Tennessee Williams

Name: The Sons of Tennessee Williams
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Released: 2011-10-07
Duration: 1 min 15 s
Rating: 52
Cast: Charles Maddox, Tommy Dietsch, Ed Herlihy, George Roth, Don Stratton

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews

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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews

43% Positive
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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews

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The A.V. Club

Oct 5, 2011

The significance of that group anecdote - from the message of unity to the way Mardi Gras gave some gay New Orleanians a way to explain their lives to their parents - can't be overstated, either for its impact on human rights or its power to move.

By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW

The Hollywood Reporter

Oct 9, 2011

Genial documentary combines extravagance of Mardi Gras drag with an underexposed story of early gay-rights achievements.

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New York Post

Oct 7, 2011

The Sons of Tennessee Williams, which offers touching interviews with many older gay men, somewhat awkwardly connects this history with the efforts of a gay Mardi Gras crew to keep going in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Oct 6, 2011

As the film cuts back and forth between the present day and a historical survey of gay culture, its tone wavers between dutifully somber and irrepressibly funny.

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Variety

Oct 4, 2011

Tim Wolff's documentary is a diverting mix of colorful interviewees and footage from one such krewe's 40th anniversary ball, but it doesn't probe very deep.

By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW

Village Voice

Oct 4, 2011

A tedious exercise in filling in historical blanks through exhausted tropes.

By Ernest Hardy FULL REVIEW

Slant Magazine

Oct 6, 2011

This time-tested project of tracing gayness back to when its shame was so explicitly enforced feels not only passé, and naïve, but mostly unproductive in a post-Judith Butler world in which drag queens are on TV teaching biological women how to better perform womanhood.

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Production Company Wolffhouse

Release Date Oct 7, 2011

Duration 1 h 15 m

Rating Unrated

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Tagline They did it without bricks, they did it without anger. They did it in drag.

Website http://firstrunfeatures.com/sonsoftennesseewilliams/

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Top Cast

Charles Maddox

Self, King Armeinius the 40th

Tommy Dietsch

Self, Queen Armeinius the 40th

Ed Herlihy

Self

George Roth

Self, Queen Celeste the 9th

Don Stratton

Self, Queen Armeinius the 2nd

Jimmy Keyes

Self, Queen Petronius XV

Mike Moreau

Self

John Henry Bogie

Self

Albert Carey

Self, 'The Volcano', Queen Armeinius VI

Tracy Hendrix

Self

Steve Labranche

Self

Freddie Guess

Self

Bill Woolley

Self

Wendell Stipelcovich

Self, 'The Shrimp Cocktail'

George Patterson

Self

Charles Turberville

Self

Bill McLemore

Self

Adam Matthews

Self

Abram Bowie

Self

Billy Shane

Self

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