Tea and Sympathy
A sensitive prepschooler called "sister boy" by his peers, is offered more than tea and sympathy by the lovely housemaster's wife to help the boy prove his manhood. The frankness may be muted but the power remains in this stellar film.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: January 18, 2011
- Originally Released: 1956
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Deborah Kerr | |
Performer: | Leif Erickson, John Kerr, Edward Andrews, Darryl Hickman, Dean Jones, Norma Crane, Jacqueline deWit, Tom Laughlin, Peter Votrian, Steve Terrell, Kip King & Richard Tyler | |
Directed by | Vincente Minnelli | |
Edited by | Ferris Webster | |
Written by | Robert Anderson | |
Composition by | Adolph Deutsch | |
Produced by | Pandro S. Berman | |
Director of Photography: | John Alton |
Entertainment Reviews:
The only two dramatic moments in the play have been so expanded, made so explicit, that they lose their impact.
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The Spectator
The film's details -- indeed, its very timidity -- still ensure fascinating viewing.
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Time Out
Robert Anderson's adaptation of his own legiter keeps the essentials in proper focus.
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Variety
Surprising as it may seem, in the light of the screen's Production Code, which generally compels evasion of the more delicate sexual subjects in American films... Tea and Sympathy has been given a strong and sensitive screen rendering.
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New York Times
Remarkable early report on The War on Homosexuals.
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Classic Film and Television
Rating: B --
Though stale, betraying its theatrical origins (Kazan did it on stage), Minnelli's version still reflects the sexual and social anxieties of the McCarthy era as well as of his own life.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
This stands as one of Minnelli's feebler efforts.
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Film4
Description by OLDIES.com:
Homosexuality was a taboo subject in 1956 Hollywood. So it was a challenge for screenwriter Robert Anderson to adapt his hit Broadway play about a sensitive prepschooler called "sister boy" by his peers, and the lovely housemaster's wife who realizes she must offer more than tea and sympathy to help the boy prove his manhood. The frankness may be muted but the power remains in this stellar film. Under Vincente Minnelli's direction, Deborah Kerr and John Kerr reprise their Broadway roles as older woman and younger man in poignant performances that reveal the compassion and the torment of being human. Their stage costar Leif Erickson joins them in counterpoint as the emotionally clenched housemaster.
Product Description:
Film version of the Robert Anderson play about a prep school boy, thought by many to be homosexual, who turns out to have an affair with a teacher's wife.
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- UPC: 883316311080
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