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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9786305078319
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305078319
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 27, 1998
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 7191
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 20, 1998
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Product Description:
Catherine mccormack plays veronica franco the real-life courtesan who used her influence over the most powerful men in europe to change her own life and the course of world events. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/08/2005 Starring: Catherine Mccormack Rufus Sewell Run time: 114 minutes Rating: R Director: Marshall Herskowitz
Amazon.com:
Although it was unfortunately ignored during its brief theatrical release, this sumptuously seductive production is that rarest of cinematic breeds, the (barely) respectable guilty pleasure. Combining historical fact with hysterical anachronisms of language and mannerism, it's been tailored for maximum contemporary appeal but maintains a lush, romantic feel for its factual 16th-century tale of Venetian love, lust, and political repression. Catherine McCormack (Mel Gibson's ill-fated bride in Braveheart) delivers a star-making performance as the 'dangerous beauty' who becomes a skillful courtesan to pursue her forbidden love for a dashing Venetian senator (Rufus Sewell). It's all rather silly in a high-toned fashion, and the film turns dour when the church intervenes with a Scarlet Letter-like papal inquest. But the movie's joyously ribald vitality is utterly irresistible, and the casting of McCormack with Jaqueline Bisset (as her mother and courtesan mentor) is a stroke of pure genius. Merchant-Ivory would've made a smarter film from this material, but it probably wouldn't be nearly as entertaining. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - YOU MUST SEE !
I SAW AT THE THEATRE ONE EVENING AND FOR ALL THE WEEK I BEEN TO SEE IT AGAIN AND AGAIN . SO GREAT MOVIE . WHAT CAN I SAID IF YOU HAVEN'T SEE YOU MUST SEE IT AND JUDGE YORSELF .
Rating: - You sent 2 copies, I returned 1 and was never refunded for it.
Great Movie, true story, However I only needed ONE copy, NOT TWO!!!!! I returned the 2nd movie and still have not been refunded. Please refund my account for the movie that was returned!!!!!
Thanks,
Amy
Rating:  - Couldn't View
I have 2 movies that I need to return and neither of them work for me...
I am not sure why they are defective and I will return them but I have not had time to go to the post office but they will be returned. Sad because I love the movie
Rating: - Top 50 All time Favorites
Dangerous Beauty is in my top 50 of all time favorites. It has something for everyone - romance, humor, history - and is underscored by a lovely soundtrack. The characters are well cast. My daughter did a term paper on Veronica Franco and the role of courtesans and women in the 16th century after seeing this. I heartily recommend this little known gem.
Rating: - Wonderful Love Story
This movie is fantastic. It has a wonderful love story, the costumes and settings are beautiful and the fictional history is not far from fact.
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