Sweet Bird of Youth (1989)

5.5/10 • 95 min • Drama TV Movie

Overview

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 Taylor

Alexandra Del Lago

Mark Harmon

Valerie Perrine

Seymour Cassel

Rip Torn

Ronnie Claire Edwards

Megan Blake

Charles Lucia

Dr. George Scudder

Teddy Wilson

John Fleck

Tom Nolan

Billy Ray Sharkey

Scotty

Ruta Lee

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