" And then he brashly lectures her, [using tactics from his legal profession] on imprisoning birds in their cages.Barbra was forced to abandon it and run down the deserted road to a nearby, isolated two-story white farmhouse for refuge.It was a "gene therapy that allows the brain to create its own cells in order to repair itself" - a process called neurogenesis.] The action occurs on the occasion of the 65th birthday of 'Big Daddy' Pollitt (Burl Ives reprising his stage role) - the patriarchal plantation head (who is secretly suffering from terminal cancer), when the greater Pollitt family gathers and inevitably quarrels - greedily - over he granting of the expected inheritance.