The Glass Menagerie (1987)

Synopsis: Paul Newman directs this film adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play about a dysfunctional family struggling to survive in depression-era St. Louis. Tom Wingfield returns to the dilapidated... Paul Newman directs this film adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play about a dysfunctional family struggling to survive in depression-era St. Louis. Tom Wingfield returns to the dilapidated apartment where he once lived with his mother and his crippled sister Laura and reminisces about their days together. He had diligently provided for the family, working at a warehouse and hoping that his sister would emerge from her shell to find her own way in life. But all that time he dreamed of escaping their squalid existence and experiencing his own freedom -- which he eventually does. His mother and sister, however, remain trapped forever in their own fantasies and memories of the past. [More]

Starring: Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, Karen Allen, James Naughton

Starring: Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, Karen Allen, James Naughton

Director: Paul Newman

Director: Paul Newman

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