The ballad of the sad café [videorecording] / produced in association with the Criterion Collection, Merchant Ivory Productions ; a film by Simon Callow ; produced by Ismail Merchant ; screenplay by Michael Hirst ; directed by Simon Callow.
Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 1991. Based on the novel by Carson McCullersand the play by Edward Albee. Special features: New high-definition digital transfer; audio commentary by Simon Callow. Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, Rod Steiger, Cork Hubbert, Austin Pendleton, Beth Dixon.
Summary:
Miss Amelia runs the town's only cafe and controls the locals through the careful distribution of her secretly brewed hooch. Her eccentric existence is threatned with the arrival of a dwarf who claims kinship and the reappearance of her rejected husband.
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