Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Directed by Richard Brooks
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
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What critics compared Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to
For the majority of the first half, when sexuality is cloaked under euphemisms and could be interpreted as nothing more than a close friendship, it resembles the 1958 film adaptation of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , a stage play with overtly homosexual themes about sexual repression.
The best of these is Mr. Lotso Huggin Bear, a lavender plush teddy who “smells like strawberries” and, as ingeniously voiced by Ned Beatty, behaves like a deranged hybrid of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof's Big Daddy and the warden from Cool Hand Luke.