Vanessa Redgrave
Miss Amelia
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The Ballad of the Sad Café is a 1991 Southern Gothic drama film directed by Simon Callow in his directorial debut, and starring Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, and Rod Steiger. Its plot follows Amelia, a moonshiner in rural 1930s Georgia whose lonely life is interrupted by the arrival of two men: First, her long-lost cousin, and later, her ...
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Directed by Simon Callow. With Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, Cork Hubbert, Rod Steiger. A tangled triangle. In the rural South of the early 20th century, Miss Amelia is the town eccentric, selling corn liquor and dispensing medicine.
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- Comedy, Drama, Mystery
- Simon Callow
- 1991-06
One day Cousin Lymon, a noisy dwarf ( Cork Hubbert ), arrives in town, introduces himself as Miss Amelia's kin, and starts preparing the way for the arrival of Marvin Macy, much as John the Baptist once performed similar duties in a different story.
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Merchant Ivory veteran Simon Callow's only turn as a director is a twisted Southern Gothic dark comedy set in a small rural town in the deep South. Redgrave plays Miss Amelia, the eccentric...
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- Simon Callow
- PG-13
- Vanessa Redgrave
The Ballad of the Sad Café, first published in 1951, is a book by Carson McCullers comprising a novella of the same title along with six short stories: "Wunderkind", "The Jockey", "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland", "The Sojourner", "A Domestic Dilemma", and "A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud".
- Carson McCullers
- 1951
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - The Ballad of the Safe Cafe on DVD In a desolate, dusty Southern town during the Great Depression, local eccentric Miss Amelia (Vanessa Redgrave) entertains the locals on the first floor of her house, often spending her nights dispensing her secret stash of moonshine to appease the citizens who spend their entire ...
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