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Sweet Bird of Youth
Film / 1989

Sweet Bird of Youth

Directed by Nicolas Roeg
DramaTV movie

★ 5.5/10Audience rating

Tennessee William’s masterful melodrama about an aging movie star who, appalled by her own image on the screen, flees from her movie premiere and goes into seclusion, becoming entangled with a much younger hotel masseur and resident gigolo.

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Tennessee William’s masterful melodrama about an aging movie star who, appalled by her own image on the screen, flees from her movie premiere and goes into seclusion, becoming entangled with a much younger hotel masseur and resident gigolo.

Cast

Elizabeth TaylorAlexandra Del Lago Mark HarmonChance Wayne Valerie PerrineMiss Lucy Seymour CasselHatcher Rip TornBoss Finley Kevin GeerTom Junior Ronnie Claire EdwardsAunt Nonnie Cheryl ParisHeavenly Finley Megan BlakeViolet Martha MillikenVirginia Charles LuciaDr. George Scudder Teddy WilsonFly
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John FleckMission Man Tom Nolan Billy Ray SharkeyScotty Michael Wilding, Jr.Morton Frasier Hal EnglandMinister Ruta LeeSally Powers Nurit KoppelEdna Michael ShanerDriver Angela TeekSinger Tery LockettHotel Waiter

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