The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
PG-13
01 hours 41 minutes
- Keith Carradine, Vanessa Redgrave, Cork Hubbert
- Simon Callow
- Drama, Comedy, Mystery
- June 1, 1991
- English
- 5.9
Synopsis
A tangled triangle. In the rural South of the early 20th century, Miss Amelia is the town eccentric, selling corn liquor and dispensing medicine. She takes in her half-sister’s son, a diminutive crook-back named Lymon. He suggests they open a café in the downstairs of her large house. Marvin Macy gets out of prison and returns to town; turns out he was married to Amelia but it wasn’t consummated. He pleaded, then got angry. Is he back for revenge? Eventually, Amelia and Marvin stage a no-holds-barred fight in the café. Lymon’s complicated response to Marvin and to Cousin Amelia figures in the resolution.
