A troubled woman with a difficult past, humidity that hangs like condemnation in the air and a drawl as thick as honey, if not always as sweet. That's Tennessee Williams country, and it's right where we find Bryce Dallas Howard's Memphis heiress, Fisher Willow, in "The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond." Like Fisher, the film is lovely, if flawed. Based on a never-produced screenplay Williams wrote in the late '50s, its characters are not fully fleshed to their breaking or boiling point, the playwright's specialty. Still, director Jodie Markell's first feature remains a film to savor, rich in ways that are all too rare today. Consider it a treasure of the unpolished sort. Read Sharkey's full review of "The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond" at the LA Times
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
Set in the Roaring Twenties in Williams’ (and Markell’s) home town of Memphis, the film tells the story of Fisher Willow (Howard) a headstrong young heiress who chafes under the constraints of proper Southern society, and who rebels by asking the impoverished but handsome son of her father’s caretaker, Jimmy Dobyne (Evans), to escort her to the major social events of the season. The relationship is purely a business arrangement at the outset, with Fisher paying for Jimmy’s time and attention, but when she discovers that she really loves him, she finds it impossible to re-write the rules and earn the affection she tried to buy.
Opened December 30, 2009 Runtime:1 hr. 42 min.
PG-13
Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Evans, Ann-Margret, Will Patton, Ellen Burstyn
Director: Jodie Markell
Genres: Romantic Drama, Period Film, Drama
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