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Actors: Helen Mirren, Olivier Martinez, Anne Bancroft
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Karen Stone (Mirren) is an actress whose youth is fading. Her husband is also not well, and they decide, after she flops as Juliette on Broadway, to go on vacation. He dies. She is left drifting in Rome with no real friends or support system. Stone calls upon The Contessa (Bancroft) to try and have tea with someone -- even if that someone is someone she barely knows. The Contessa arranges for Mrs. Stone to date a series of young men. Unbeknownst to her, these young men are essentially gigalos who give The Contessa a cut of funds they are given by their older escorts. Stone is about to give up when she meets Paolo (Martinez). She continues to struggle with her loss of beauty, but Paolo doesn't seem to care about that. Is he more interested in her bank account or her?
This movie was adopted for Showtime from the Tennessee Williams book.
--ldpaulson, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Struggle with
- midlife crisis
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- actor
Lover is...
- not quite a crook, but doing something bad
Coping with loss of loved one?
Yes
Coping with loss of
- Husband/boyfriend/squeeze
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- actor
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- another color
Body type
- (woman) average
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 60's-90's
Profession/status:
- thief/con artist
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- another color
Body type
- (woman) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Italy
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
- dirty, grimy (like New York)
- dangerous
- wealthy
Misc setting
- theater
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- licking
- seeing breasts
- sex under blankets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Is this movie based on a
- book
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