Orleans. She doesn't understand how Stella, who is expecting her first child, could have picked a husband so lacking in refinement. Stanley Kowalski's buddies come over to the house to play cards and one of them, Mitch, finds Blanche attractive until Stanley tells him about what kind of a woman Blanche really is. What will happen when Stella goes to the hospital to have her baby and just Blanche and her brother-in-law are in the house?

Tags : mental illness | sister sister relationship | widow | pregnancy | family relationships | national film registry | husband wife relationship | adultery | dysfunctional marriage | dating | marriage | train station | shower | baby | cigarette smoking

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ie jumps ship and eventually winds up on a bus headed back to her husband. Reluctantly she must accept the help of out-of- work reporter Peter Warne. Actually, Warne doesn't give her any choice: either she sticks with him until he gets her back to her husband, or he'll blow the whistle on Ellie to her father. Either way, Peter gets what (he thinks!) he wants .... a really juicy newspaper story.

Tags : bus | road movie | reporter | newspaper | road trip | father daughter relationship | new york city | class differences | shower | deception | national film registry | marriage | undressing

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