Tea and Sympathy

Tea and Sympathy

Year: 1956

Runtime: 122 mins

Language: English

Director: Vincente Minnelli

DramaUnderdogs and coming of ageStudent coming-of-age challengesEmotional teen coming-of-age storiesEmotional LGBTQ relationships

The film asks where a woman’s sympathy ends and her indiscretion begins, as a sensitive young man looks back on his boarding‑school years. The only person who seemed to offer him genuine compassion was the housemaster’s wife, whose attention blurs the line between kindness and desire.

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