...From beautiful costumes to exquisite imagery to a first rate cast with a wonderful new indelible character in Fisher Willow, THE LOSS OF A TEARDROP DIAMOND is a newfound Williams work that is not to be missed.

| Nov 6, 2019

The words drip with affectation (as do the actors) and Jodie Mankell's direction is dipped in southern gothic honey and glazed over with period sprinkles.

| Sep 11, 2010

Not even a super-powered Shop-Vac could clean this screenplay of its cobwebs. It's is dated and further flawed by plain old poor filmmaking.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 13, 2010

A deservedly overlooked Tennessee Williams script set in the 1920s South, its plot makes little sense for contemporary audiences.

| Mar 25, 2010

This is not the galvanizing, deep fried melodrama of Tennessee Williams at his height but rather, the low fat version.

| Feb 8, 2010

As beautifully played by Howard, Fisher Willow appropriately resembles a china doll, with a pale face highlighted by bright red lips -- she is hard yet fragile, projecting something of an artificial quality that hides her pain.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 15, 2010

While it captures the Southern Gothic atmosphere, it's sketchy and studied, best geared to Tennessee Williams aficionados.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 10, 2010

A clearly inferior piece of writing that doesn't have the emotional resonance of even previously acknowledged mediocre works by Williams.

| Jan 8, 2010

The characters and themes are redolent of earlier and better Williams works, and the story unexpectedly putters out at the end-but seeing it now, you can't help but treasure the simple, lyrical dialogue and sure-handed narrative thrust

| Jan 8, 2010

If you are not already familiar with Williams's best plays and film adaptations, this musty magnolia of a movie won't encourage you to seek them out.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 8, 2010

a terrible and terribly dated work that will strike Williams scholars as the cinematic equivalent of a bottle cap and everyone else as arguably the worst version of one of his works to ever hit the big screen and bear in mind, I have seen "Boom."

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 8, 2010

It's unfortunate that an entire generation who've never seen a Williams play or film will think that this current work represents the artist. Now that this screenplay has been 'found' ... can we lose it again?

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jan 8, 2010

Most effective as a reminder that Williams' works emerged from a certain time and place, and to approach them from another is fraught with peril.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 8, 2010

Even though Howard never quite gets it, never quite releases into the role and never quite convinces, she never makes a mistake, either.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 7, 2010

It's minor Williams turned minor cinema, but there are nonetheless moments that resonate.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 7, 2010

The script is half-a-fortune at best, and visually the picture is staid. But you stick with it, because it's Williams and because certainly no one since Williams has written this sort of embroidered dialogue.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 7, 2010

A rambling, zombified pass at Williams-certified melodrama, the film is an absolute chore to finish, even while boasting a few fine performances and the luscious humidity of 1920's southern comfort.

| Original Score: D+ | Jan 7, 2010

It has been filmed in a respectful manner that evokes a touring production of an only moderately successful Broadway play. Understand that, accept it, and the film has its rewards and one performance of great passion.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 7, 2010

Though it's dated, the larger issue has to do with those timeless problems of plot and character.

| Jan 6, 2010

Director Jodie Markell's fidelity to Williams simply isn't enough to make his tropes sing.

| Jan 6, 2010