Synopsis
Tells the story of Fisher Willow, the disliked 1920s Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking and insulting those around her. After returning from studies overseas, Fisher falls in love with Jimmy, the down-and-out son of an alcoholic father and an insane mother who works at a store on her family's plantation.
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Cast
- Bryce Dallas HowardFisher Willow
- Chris EvansJimmy Dobyne
- Ellen BurstynMiss Addie
- Ann-MargretAunt Cornelia
- Jennifer SipesCaroline
- Mamie GummerJulie
- Will PattonOld Man Dobyne
- Jessica CollinsVinnie
- Peter GeretyMr. Van Hooven
- Marin IrelandEsmeralda
Recommendations
- 70
Los Angeles Times
Despite Teardrop Diamond's rough edges, the filmmaker, who has spent much of her career acting on stage and screen, succeeds in transporting us back to that other time; capturing the lyricism of the dialogue and the fetid South that Williams so brilliantly envisioned where nearly everything goes to rot. - 70
The New York Times
With its strained, quasi-poetic language that fitfully tries to soar, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond is a significant, though less than monumental feat of reclamation. - 58
Christian Science Monitor
If you are not already familiar with Williams’s best plays and film adaptations, this musty magnolia of a movie won’t encourage you to seek them out. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
The story is a sketchy, dramatically muddled rumination on familiar Williams themes about the Old South and its brave, beautiful, rebellion women always on the brink of love, suicide or madness. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
Howard looks peachy, and actor-turned-director Jodie Markell sweats the details -- moonlight, honeyed accents -- but the brittle script resists restoration. - 40
Variety
The fragrant aroma of magnolias is undercut by the distinct smell of mothballs throughoutThe Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, an admirably earnest but curiously flat attempt to film a long-unproduced scenario by Tennessee Williams. - 40
Time Out
To her credit, Howard’s performance as a class-obsessed Southerner is decent enough to keep things from completely devolving to community-college level. But such weak work needs strong hands all around to guide it, and one pair isn’t enough. - 40
New York Daily News
Descends with dismaying speed into clichéd Southern melodrama.
