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1963
Directed by George Roy Hill
Synopsis
Toys in the Attic Plays With Fire!
Julian Berniers returns from Illinois with his young bride Lily Prine to the family in New Orleans. His spinster sisters Carrie and Anna welcome the couple, who arrive with expensive gifts. The sisters hope Julian will help with their expenses, and he tells them that while his profitable factory went out of business, he did manage to save money.
It turns out that Julian pulled off a real estate scam and took off with the money. Carrie is obsessed with her brother. Her jealousy of Lily pushes her to discover the shady land deal for herself and she does everything she can to wreck their marriage.
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Cast
Dean Martin Geraldine Page Yvette Mimieux Wendy Hiller Gene Tierney Frank Silvera Larry Gates Nan Martin Charles Lampkin
DirectorDirector
George Roy Hill
ProducerProducer
Walter Mirisch
WriterWriter
James Poe
Original WriterOriginal Writer
Lillian Hellman
CastingCasting
Lynn Stalmaster
EditorEditor
Stuart Gilmore
CinematographyCinematography
Joseph F. Biroc
Assistant DirectorAsst. Director
Emmett Emerson
Art DirectionArt Direction
Cary Odell
Set DecorationSet Decoration
Victor A. Gangelin
ComposerComposer
George Duning
SoundSound
Gilbert D. Marchant
Costume DesignCostume Design
Bill Thomas
MakeupMakeup
Frank Prehoda Loren Cosand
HairstylingHairstyling
Mary Westmoreland
Studios
Meadway-Claude Productions Company The Mirisch Company
Country
USA
Language
English
Alternative Titles
Cariño amargo (Pasiones en conflicto), La porta dei sogni, Puppen unterm Dach, Le tumulte, Joguines a les golfes
Genre
Drama
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Theatrical
31 Jul 1963
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USA
31 Jul 1963
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Review by AbandonChimp ★★★ 2
Feels like somebody accidentally dropped Dean Martin into a Tennessee Williams adaptation without sufficient time to prep.
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Review by Zoë 🐛 ★★★ 2
I watched this four years ago when I went through my glorious Dean Martin obsession, and I had absolutely no expectations going into it the first time I watched it (besides probably some trepidation due to the poster) and I was very surprised by the strange Southern Gothic story. I was not expecting an incestuous obsession to be central to the film's plot, or for Dino to star in a movie like this. He feels a bit out of place, mostly because in no world is he the biological brother of Geraldine Page and Wendy Hiller, but he's surprisingly solid in a dramatic and dialogue-heavy lead role. I was surprised once again watching him in this for a second time,…
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Review by Fint ★★★½ 1
Wow, that's a very incendiary poster image, not completely chiming with the content of the film - even if Toys in the Attic is an overheated Southern family melodrama, this time from the typewriter keys of Lillian Hellman rather than Tennessee Williams.
There are three very good performances - Geraldine Page doing her tremulous batty lady schtick (a schtick she did very well); Dean Martin as her adored ne'er-do-well brother, rising to the dramatic challenges of the role; and Wendy Hiller, nabbing Anne Revere's Tony-winning role as the level-headed sister trying to enforce stability onto her fundamentally unstable sister. We also have Yvette Mimieux as Dean's wife and Gene Tierney as her underwritten mother.
It's worthwhile, chiefly because of the…
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Review by Anna Imhof 🌸 ★★★½ 1
Can we really blame a woman for wanting to sleep with her own brother when her brother is Dean Martin?
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Review by Jenna Ipcar ★★★
Everything about this movie is just so weird... That this incest jealously drama was based on a semi-biographical play by Lillian Hellman. (It felt a bit like if Truman Capote wrote a Marlon Brando & Bette Davis screenplay that got left on the cutting room floor or something...) That George Roy Hill directed this, that they cast Dean Martin as a brother to Geraldine Page and Wendy Hiller, that his child bride could be so stupid as to put her beloved in such obvious danger, that he could be so stupid as not to explain what was happening to anybody knowing the danger. Then given the weird shoved in mobster plot and violent ending, the whole thing feels kind of slight.…
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Review by Jason Drews ★★★½
I was just wondering how they’d handle the undercurrent of incestuous desire without pissing off censors when Wendy Hiller blurts out, essentially, ‘I’ve known forever that you want to fuck our brother.’ No time for subtlety, got it.
All the ladies are dazzling. Even Yvette Mimieux and Nan Martin*, who could’ve just felt like doormats in lesser hands. Gene Tierney steals scenes as a happily rich widow with no more fucks to give, and Hiller can’t help but be brilliant, but—as ever—it’s all about Geraldine Page. As in both Summer and Smoke and The Beguiled she doesn’t know what to do with her inappropriate horniness so she devours scenery and bulldozes over everyone as only she can. I adore her,…
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Review by Rick Burin ★★★★½ 6
Toys in the attic and skeletons in the closet: a very entertaining slice of Southern Gothic from commie playwright Lillian Hellman: a little ripe, a little familiar, but extremely well done.
Geraldine Page and Wendy Hiller are spinster sisters in New Orleans whose sheltered life is shaken by the return of ne'er-do-well brother, Dean Martin, suddenly flush with cash but somewhat reticent to say why. In his company is his neurotic young wife (Yvette Mimieux), whose harsh, strident mother (Gene Tierney) may have made the match.
It's largely shot on one set, but future New Hollywood hero George Roy Hill directs it all extremely nicely, and much of the acting is an absolute treat, with Page and Hiller dominating in…
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Review by Adriana Scarpin ★★★½
Em honra de Yvette Mimieux (1942 - 2022).
Pelo texto tinha grande potencial, mas teria sido sensacional se tivesse ido para o cinema pelas mãos do Arthur Penn que o dirigiu no teatro.
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Review by LeeJK56 ★★★½
Wait a second! Is there someone more neurotic than Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire? Yes, there is! Her name is Carrie, and she is in this film! (Geraldine Page stars in the role while turning in a Golden Globe-nominated performance for actress in a leading role. Her costar, Wendy Hiller, plays her older sister, Anna, and also received a Golden Globe nomination as best supporting actress. The film was also nominated for an Oscar for costume design). Histrionics aside, Dean's character seems megalomanic when he finds himself among the "newly rich." This film becomes especially melodramatic and almost shocking in the final 20 minutes, in this film depicting a neurotic Southern family as two spinster and overprotective older sisters react to their brother's visit home, bringing along his much younger bride.
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Review by Daniel ★★★½
"You never said those words. Tell me you never heard those words! Tell me, Anna! You were all I ever had. I don't love you anymore."
"That's the chance I took."Carrie (Geraldine Page) and Anna Berniers (Wendy Hiller) welcome their brother Julian (Dean Martin) and his new bride Lily (Yvette Mimieux) home, and are impressed when he makes them expensive gifts. However, Carrie isn't happy at all her beloved brother got married ...
Toys in the Attic is a drama film directed by George Roy Hill, based on the play of the same name by Lillian Hellman.
Hill's movie about a neurotic Southern family has an excellent screenplay, is very well filmed and carried by a terrific performance by…
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Review by emma kathleen 🦋 ★★★★
the scream i scrumpt when she said “you want to sleep with julian”.
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Review by Luoir ★★★½
Through the themes of dreams and disillusionment, an exploration of the complexities in family relationships and the psychological effects of the past shapes present actions and interactions. Toys in the Attic offers emotional depth and complexity in a predictable yet metaphorical manner: the attic of repressed memories and the claustrophobic tension of emotional confinement.
