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Sweet Bird of Youth
Drama, Romance
Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who appreciate emotionally charged theatrical melodrama about compromised people battling aging, ambition, and entrenched social power.
- Tone
- melancholic, bleak, tense
- Payoff
- heartbreak, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- disillusionment, social corruption, lost youth, desire, power
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, humid coastal resort town and private mansions
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