Marlon Brando Karl Malden Vivien Leigh Kim Hunter Rudy Bond Nick Dennis
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Set in an apartment in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Blanche Dubois visits her pregnant sister while her husband questions her finances and property that may have been left to her and her sister.
mitchellyoung 09/02/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful)
Rating of 3.5/4
The thing that elevates this film over extreme melodrama is the burning and tortured performances. This is more than acting - this is becoming the characters. Marlon Brando's best work, besides On the Waterfront.
pixienerd487 07/17/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)
Rating of 2.5/4
Marlon Brando is smoldering and mesmerizing in this, one of the most visceral performances ever captured on screen! However, he sets the bar so high and the rest of the film just doesn't seem to measure up.
Ichabod Crane 12/05/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful)
Rating of 4/4
A Streetcar Named Desire is a film that really needs to be viewed multiple times to truly appreciate its depth of emotion. Each of the four main characters are deeply complex individuals, that are simply fascinating to watch as they interact with one another. Each of the actor bring such depths to their roles and make this one film that is simply incredible to watch.
Uhh, I don't think this is a very good movie. If I saw this as a high school play, yes, it might be a great play. As a movie it fails. Over acting, few change of sets, and a lot of dialog bring this down. I love Brando, but I could not get in to this one. Only for hard core drama fans.
Highly acclaimed drama with top notch performances. Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) is the sister of Stanley Kowalski's (Marlon Brando) wife Stella Kowalski (Kim Hunter). Starts of slow but begins to be engaging after 30min. or so when the characters show their real colors. The pace was somewhat sluggish though the soundtrack wonderful and recognized by the Academy awards. Settings were well picked and support were believable. Screenplay was descent though the characters not that likable. Kim Hunter seems to be the oddball becasue of the tremendous efforts from Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh. On the positives, Brando was astoundingly convincing while Leigh authentic as crazy alcoholic who lies. A Streetcar Named Desire maybe highly praised, for this critic it was an average drama o...
