Sweet Bird of Youth

Tennessee William’s masterful melodrama about an aging movie star who, appalled by her own image on the screen, flees from her movie premiere and goes into seclusion, becoming entangled with a much younger hotel masseur and resident gigolo.

Director: Nicolas Roeg

Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Mark Harmon, Valerie Perrine, Seymour Cassel, Rip Torn, Kevin Geer, Ronnie Claire Edwards, Cheryl Paris

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.