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Movie Description
This modern telling of the Greek myth took playwright Tennessee Williams 17 years to write. Set in a small Mississippi town, a woman must run her disagreeable husband's dry goods store while he recuperates upstairs from a long illness. A young drifter musician wanders into her life and the spring of jealousy, lust and revenge is wound tight.
Synopsis
Vanessa Redgrave stars in this adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play.
Lady Torrance has long suffered in an unsatisfying marriage to a store owner, who's now dying. But her life changes drastically when a handsome loner wanders into her small Southern town. She gives him a job in her shop and lets him move into her home. The two of them then engage in a passionate affair...
Film Notes
The Turner videocassette is part of the "TNT Collection."
A Nederlander TV and Film Prods. Inc. production.
Aired originally on Turner Network Television (TNT) September 24, 1990.
Shot on location in Jacksonville, Florida.
Kevin Anderson also starred as Val in a New York stage production of the play one year earlier.
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