Sweet Bird of Youth
“He used love like most men use money.”
DramaRomance
Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his home town 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.
VIBE
A suffocating Florida heat hangs over this tale of desperate ambition and fading glamour. It's a tense, melancholic descent into regret, where past choices haunt the present with a palpable sense of dread.
melancholictensedesperatehauntingslow-burnSouthern Gothicperiod dramacharacter studyfading youthregretambitiondisillusionment
floridagigolobased on play or musicalwomanizerdriftercorrupt politicianmovie starfading star
