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Suddenly, Last Summer

Suddenly, Last Summer

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 6, 1993

Runtime

1h 22m

Genres

Drama, TV Movie

User Score

68%

Original Title

Suddenly, Last Summer

Production Companies

KQED, BBC, Columbia Pictures

Director

Richard Eyre

Description

Catharine Holly, a poor relation of a prominent New Orleans family, seems to be insane after her cousin Sebastian dies under mysterious circumstances on a trip to Europe. Sebastian's mother, Violet Venable, trying to cloud the truth about her son's homosexuality and death, threatens to lobotomize Catharine for her incoherent utterances relating to Sebastian's demise. Under the influence of a truth serum, Catharine tells the gruesome story of Sebastian's death by cannibalism at the hands of locals whose sexual favors he sought, using Catharine as a device to attract the young men (as he had earlier used his mother).