The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond Page #3

Synopsis: Tells the story of Fisher Willow, the disliked 1920s Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking and insulting those around her. After returning from studies overseas, Fisher falls in love with Jimmy, the down-and-out son of an alcoholic father and an insane mother who works at a store on her family's plantation. She tries to pass him off as an upper-class suitor to appease the spinster aunt who controls her family's fortune, but when she loses a diamond, it places their tenuous relationship in further jeopardy.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Jodie Markell
Production: Paladin
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
25%
PG-13
Year:
2008
102 min
$94,513
Website
525 Views


and the clasps

are getting loose,

and you're so careless

with things.

- It's such a special occasion.

Please, Auntie?

- Oh.

Jimmy,

fasten them for me?

My fingers are shaky tonight,

too much black coffee.

The receiving line's

breaking up.

- What do I do?

- Wait till the lady

extends her hand.

Then just take it and smile.

Why, Caroline.

Why, you've got that band

that played so divinely

at Jessie Strutt's.

I bet when I walk in,

they'll strike up

my favorite number.

- Which is what?

- One moment.

Let me appear.

Fats!

Fats, my song.

Come on, let's dance.

- She tips that band leader $50

for every dance

he plays for her.

- I wonder what she tips

the governor's grandson.

- Shall I inquire?

- I dare you.

- Accepted.

Mr. Dobyne,

I've been released

for the waltz.

- I'm sorry, Miss...

- Caroline.

- But I'm not employed by you.

Excuse me.

- Thank you.

Jimmy.

Where on Earth were you?

What were you doing?

- I promised Dad I'd call him

about Mama's condition.

- Did you?

- It was a promise.

I said I found her fine.

- Your instincts

are infallible.

And you're the cynosure

of all female eyes at the party.

Let's, uh...

- Yes?

- Cool off on the terrace.

- Whatever you say.

- Fisher.

- Yes?

- What lovely earrings.

- Thank you,

my teardrop diamonds.

- Your ears

are weeping diamonds.

- Where'd you get them?

- Naturally, from Woolworths.

Will you let us get through?

This room is suffocating.

How cool,

the river wind.

- Music is so much nicer

from a distance.

See the boat

go round the bend

Good-bye, my lover,

good-bye

All loaded down

with boys and men

Good-bye, my lover,

good-bye

Bye, oh, my baby

Bye

Jimmy?

- Jimmy!

- Murderer's daughter.

- Shut up.

Are you hurt, Fisher?

- Where'd you go?

- If I said, "To pee,"

would it be embarrassing to you?

Oh, Lord, Jimmy.

I'm not sure if embarrassment

is still an emotion

I could feel.

- Let's go.

Come on, Dad.

Let's go.

Come on.

- Lead the way.

- I got you.

- Is this my mail?

- Go through it

right after breakfast.

- I have to go through this

right now.

Another, please.

- Fisher,

you shouldn't begin the day

with two cups of black coffee.

- What should I begin it with,

Auntie?

I must have missed it.

This is the latest

that it could have arrived

if it was ever going to.

- What are you referring to,

Fisher?

- My invitation

to Susie Bracken's party,

the most important

coming-out party of the season.

- Let me go through

the mail for you.

- You wouldn't find it either.

She ignored me completely

last night,

so I'm not surprised.

- I am.

- It's not the end

of the world.

- Nor the beginning.

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Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright. Along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.After years of obscurity, at age 33 he became suddenly famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944) in New York City. This play closely reflected his own unhappy family background. It was the first of a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), and Sweet Bird of Youth (1959). With his later work, he attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences. Increasing alcohol and drug dependence inhibited his creative expression. His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.Much of Williams' most acclaimed work has been adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. more…

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