A Streetcar Named Desire

TV Movie
1995
2h 36m

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Tennessee Williams' Blanche DuBois (Jessica Lange) lives in New Orleans with her sister, Stella, and brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski (Alec Baldwin).Tennessee Williams' Blanche DuBois (Jessica Lange) lives in New Orleans with her sister, Stella, and brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski (Alec Baldwin).Tennessee Williams' Blanche DuBois (Jessica Lange) lives in New Orleans with her sister, Stella, and brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski (Alec Baldwin).

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6.6/10

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Nominated for 4 Primetime Emmys
- 1 win & 8 nominations total

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Jessica Lange

Blanche DuBois

Alec Baldwin

Stanley Kowalski

John Goodman

Mitch Mitchell

Diane Lane

Stella Kowalski

Rondi Reed

Eunice

Frederick Coffin

Steve
(as Fred Coffin)

Carlos Gómez

Pablo
(as Carlos Gomez)

Jerry Hardin

The Doctor
(as Jerry Harden)

Tina Lifford

The Neighbor

Patricia Herd

The Matron

Matt Keeslar

Collector
(as Matt Keesler)

Carmen Zapata

Flower Seller

Director
- Glenn Jordan
Writer
- Tennessee Williams
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Trivia
The original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on December 3, 1947 at ran for 855 performances. This production also opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on April 12, 1992 and ran for 137 performances.

Quotes
Stella: But there are things that happen, between a man and a woman, in the dark, that sorta make everything else seem unimportant
Blanche: What you are talking about is brutal desire. Just desire. The name of that rattletrap streetcar that bangs through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another.
Stella: Haven't you ever ridden that streetcar?
Blanche: It brought me here, where I'm not wanted, and where I'm ashamed to be.

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Featured in 53rd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1996)

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8/10

Quite good

Tennessee Williams is a legend. This play is a true masterpiece. So it's worth watching it no matter how the actors do. And they do pretty well. Alec Baldwin gives us possibly his best acting, but possibly Jessica Lange doesn't reach this level, while having a role most actresses would beg for years to have. John Goodman is fine and gives a perspective of Mitch I hadn't in mind but he's a bit characterized as a comedy type and possibly that creates problems. Diane Lane is ok but nothing special (it's the less demanding role anyway). The scenery is better than the original film but the film has been PC transformed. Too mild for what Williams wanted to show.