Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790736365 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 0790736365 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: May 04, 1999 Running Time: 111 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: February 20, 1998 Sales Rank: 15837
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
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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!!!!!
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Rating: - Couldn't View
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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 ... Read More
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.
Rating: - One of the greatest love stories ever told on film!!!!!!!
This movie has everything, quick wit, humor, sword play, war, death, destruction, floggings and best of all true love. My original copy of this movie was lost and I searched the internet high and low... and ... Read More
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