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The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008) -- 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. She tries to pass him off as an upper-class suitor to appease the spinster aunt who controls her family's fortune, but when she loses a diamond, it places their tenuous relationship in further jeopardy.
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Director:
Jodie Markell
Writer:
Tennessee Williams (screenplay)
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Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Plot:
Tells the story of Fisher Willow, the disliked 1920s Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
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User Reviews:
Surprising, interesting, with an excellent cast and a wonderful dramatic feel more (2 total)
US Showtimes:
Beverly Center Cinemas 1:10pm | 3:45 | 7:10 | 9:45 (personalize) more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Bryce Dallas Howard ... Fisher

Chris Evans ... Jimmy
Will Patton ... Mr. Dobyne

Ann-Margret ... Cornelia

Mamie Gummer ... Julie

Jessica Collins ... Vinnie

Ellen Burstyn ... Addie
Peter Gerety ... Mr. Van Hooven

Marin Ireland ... Esmeralda

Zoe Perry ... Mathilde

Barbara Garrick ... Mrs. Dobyne

Zach Grenier ... Mr. Fenstermaker
Laila Robins ... Mrs. Fenstermaker
Susan Blommaert ... Addie's Nurse
Carol Sutton ... Susie
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for some sexuality and drug content.
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Runtime:
USA:102 min | Canada:102 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
USA:PG-13 | Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB)
Filming Locations:
Alexandria, Louisiana, USA more
Company:
Constellation Entertainment more

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Trivia:
Lindsay Lohan was originally cast as Fisher. more
Soundtrack:
Fisher's Mood more

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Surprising, interesting, with an excellent cast and a wonderful dramatic feel, 10 January 2010
8/10
Author: zken from United States

For those of us who don't get to the theater much and depend on the cinema for our acting thrills, this film is just downright fun. The fact that it got made in this century is a pleasant and amusing surprise. Like "An Education", this film features a few strong unknown cast that are outstanding. It also features phenomenal stars Ellen Burstyn and Ann-Margret in wonderful, surprising cameos. Chris Evans shines-has their been a sexier role for a young actor? Bryce Dallas Howard is a wonder, and really pulls off a very demanding leading place in this film. Now blink you eyes and the plot takes you to a movie experience from before 1950. But that is exactly what is so fun. Southern style romance, twisted identical twins, dead bodies up the stairs-it is also somewhat predicable but very lovingly portrayed. I really like this film, exactly because I love the experience of pulling up to a movie theater on a cold winter night a getting the same good time my parents did in their day-a warm, sweet and somewhat bitter romance with a clear sense of time and place.

Don't go to this film expecting fireworks. Go for movie magic served Southern style by actors who are real and very good. This is what entertainment is about, and unfortunately it is a lost art these days.

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