The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
Sep 12 2008
•2h 42m
•Drama, Romance
Tells the story of Fisher Willow, the disliked 1920s Memphis débutante 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, the down-and-out son of an alcoholic father and an insane mother who works at a store on her family's plantation.
Cast
See allBryce Dallas Howard
Fisher Willow
Chris Evans
Jimmy Dobyne
Ellen Burstyn
Miss Addie
Ann-Margret
Aunt Cornelia
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