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Movie Overview
Cast
• Vivien Leigh
• Marlon Brando
• Kim Hunter
Director
• Elia Kazan
MPAA Rating
PG
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

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OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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4/5
"This is a film about passion, and the movie positively oozes it."  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

B
"Lacks the poignancy you could almost swear was a given, considering it was adapted from an acclaimed Tennesse Williams play."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

8/10
"Thanks to the excellent text and superb actors, Kazan managed to create a very good film, but he still failed to turn it into genuine and everlasting masterpiece."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Dragan Antulov

A
"Over a dozen Tennessee Williams’ plays have been translated on celluloid 41 times to date, yet none match this production."  Old School Reviews  John A. Nesbit

8/10
"Streetcar should have been Vivien Leigh's picture, she's the main character, but it's Brando who steals every scene he's in."  DVDTown.com  John J. Puccio

4/4
"A Streetcar Named Desire is a fascinating, wrenching character study."  Montreal Film Journal  Kevin N. Laforest

A
"Probably the best-realized translation of Tennessee Williams we’ve seen on screen...a gold standard"  Columbus CityScene  Rick Curnutte

A
"The classic adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play, featuring one of Marlon Brando's legendary performances."  Laramie Movie Scope  Robert Roten

4/4
"That melancholy we feel as it closes is a mourning for me that I'll never be able to see this film again for the first time--and that I'll never be able to appreciate any film that came before it without the stain of it in my perception."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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