Tea and Sympathy [DVD REGION:1 USA] Rmst USA import

Warner Archives

Tea and Sympathy [DIGITAL VIDEO DISC] Rmst

Title: Tea and Sympathy

Format: DIGITAL VIDEO DISC

Label: Warner Archives

Genre: Drama

UPC: 883316311080

Release Date: 2011

Homosexuality was a taboo subject in 1956 Hollywood. So it was a challenge for screenwriter Robert Anderson to adapt his hit Broadway play about a sensitive prepschooler called sister boy by his peers, and the lovely housemaster's wife who realizes she must offer more than tea and sympathy to help the boy prove his manhood. The frankness may be muted but the power remains in this stellar film. Under Vincente Minnelli's direction, Deborah Kerr and John Kerr reprise their Broadway roles as older woman and younger man in poignant performances that reveal the compassion and the torment of being human. Their stage costar Leif Erickson joins them in counterpoint as the emotionally clenched housemaster.