Paul Newman remains faithful to Tennessee Williams's source play and elicits some terrific performances from John Malkovich, Karen Allen (especially good), James Naughton and his wife, Joanne Woodward. The action takes place in a claustrophobic St Louis apartment, which Woodward's matriach governs with emotional blackmail.
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