Suddenly Last Summer (2012): Cast, Box Office & Plot

In 1937 New Orleans, a young woman named Catherine Holly is confined to a state hospital after a traumatic death on a European summer holiday. The official story points to an emotional disturbance, but the truth behind her cousin’s demise—Sebastian Venable—is surrounded by a web of salacious rumors and high-society protection. The formidable Violet Venable, Sebastian’s mother, works tirelessly to shape the narrative and to shield a family secret that could ruin her late son’s memory. To sway the system, she offers a generous bribe to the hospital’s administrator, Lawrence J. Hockstader, promising a new wing in exchange for the promise that the brilliant surgeon John Cukrowicz will perform a lobotomy on Catherine.