The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2009)

Cast and Crew

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Starring

• Bryce Dallas Howard as Fisher Willow
• Chris Evans as Jimmy
• Ellen Burstyn
• Ann-Margret
• Will Patton as Old Man Dobyne

Movie Story

The screenplay tells the story of Fisher Willow (Howard), the disliked 1920s Memphis debutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking and insulting those around her.

After returning from studies overseas, Fisher falls in love with Jimmy (Evans), the down-and-out son of an alcoholic father (Strathairn) and an insane mother who works at a store on her family's plantation. She tries to pass him off as an upper-class suitor to appease the spinster aunt (Ann-Margret) who controls her family's fortune, but when she loses a diamond, it places their tenuous relationship in further jeopardy. Burstyn is attached to play Fisher's mother.

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Reader's Reviews

An outstanding film!

posted by TIFF fan on Sep 13, 2008

I enjoyed this film as a comedy! The film is so full of cliches and poor acting that it's quite hilarious.

posted by TIFFed on Sep 13, 2008

great movie for great costum design [ who made the earrings i would like to get a pair for upcoming occasion. In to day`s world we need more good feeling flicks.

posted by johannes24k on Jan 28, 2009