Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is the pinnacle of filmmaking. The acting, direction, staging and story are wonderful. Newman plays a son of a self-made tycoon who has become a wayward, has-been athlete, resenting his beautiful, chatty wife, played by Taylor. The complexity of family relationships, developing self-awareness of characters and discussion of life throughout make Tennessee Williams' story a masterpiece, and the cast and Richard Brooks pull it off amazingly well. The best scenes are the one between Burl Ives ("Big Daddy") and Paul Newman ("Brick") near the end, when they hash out their differences and what they think of each other and their hearts both soften toward one-another and toward everyone else, as a result. Really profound stuff not to be missed by both literary and cinema buffs - and anyone that wants to think more deeply about family baggage and how to resolve and think through issues.
Review of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
