Tennessee Williams sure can break your heart. Even in this, considered not his best work (written in 1957), his characters scorch the screen with their pitiable desperation. Bryce Dallas Howard (Ron's daughter) is Fischer Willow the girl with the lost diamond earring, a 1920s southern debutante whose vulnerability is hidden under a hard-crusted veneer. Her God on Earth, the object of her desire, is the son of an alcoholic father and a mentally ill mother. (Oh, so Williamsesque.) Her genteel family doesn't approve even though he is a man of formidable character.
When Fisher loses one of her aunt's $5,000 earrings, he finds himself in the center of the drama, pulled by two women who love him to distraction: The wealthy, willful heiress and an equally headstrong "dirt poor" rival, who's been corrupted by poverty as much as Fischer has by privilege.
It's a steamy story, and oh, so satisfying.
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