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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) -- Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.

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Director:
Elia Kazan
Writers:
Tennessee Williams (original play "A Streetcar Named Desire")
Oscar Saul (adaptation)
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Release Date:
1 December 1951 (West Germany) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
...When she got there she met the brute Stan, and the side of New Orleans she hardly knew existed. more
Plot:
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won 4 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 14 nominations more
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(53 articles)
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Sexy, Brutal, and Endlessly Fascinating more

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Additional Details

Runtime:
122 min | USA:125 min (re-release)
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Spanish
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
USA:GP (1970 re-release) | USA:Approved (certificate #14871) (original rating) | Australia:PG (TV rating) | France:Unrated | South Korea:12 | UK:12A (re-rating) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Portugal:M/12 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 (video rating) (1986) | UK:X (original rating) | USA:PG (1993 director's cut) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:PG (Manitoba)

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Elia Kazan's first collaboration with Tennessee Williams. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Stan comes back from taking Stella to the hospital, he is looking for a bottle opener. He finds it on the mantlepiece shakes up a bottle of beer and opens it. The beer foams up and spills on his trousers. But if you watch at the moment when he swings himself up to sit on the table -- before he opens the bottle -- you can see that the front of his trousers are already wet. Apparently they re-shot it without him changing into dry trousers. more
Quotes:
Blanche DuBois: Straight? What's 'straight'? A line can be straight, or a street. But the heart of a human being? more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now? (1975) more

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48 out of 66 people found the following comment useful:-
Sexy, Brutal, and Endlessly Fascinating, 12 July 2005
10/10
Author: Rathko from Los Angeles

There is little to be said about this movie that thousands of critics have not stated already. It is a magnificent piece of cinema, with an intricate script delivered by actors at the peak of their talents. Leigh is unbearably brittle and fragile and she dances precariously on the edge of sanity. Marlon Brando embodies a sense of brooding masculinity that other men can only dream of attaining, while creating an enduring cinema icon and delivering one of the all-time great movie lines. From the raucous jazz score to the sleazy production design bathed in smoldering grey, 'Streetcar' is a class-act from beginning to end; sexy, brutal, and endlessly fascinating.

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