In this drama, wealthy land owner and patriarch Big Daddy celebrates his birthday and is visited by his two sons, Brick and Gooper. Big Daddy has had cancer but his doctor has declared him to have recovered. Gooper and his wife Mae have a bunch of kids and are greedily waiting to inherit Big Daddy's millions. His favorite son Brick, on the other hand, is a drunken ex-football star with an unhappy marriage to Maggie. She iss frustrated since she loves her husband, but he despises her. It is everybody's war against everybody to get the money and Brick is the only one who won't suck up to Big Daddy.