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M. Butterfly

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Drama, Romance
Release Date:January 1, 1998
Running time:101 minutes
Cast:Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa, Ian Richardson, Annabel Leventon
Director:David Cronenberg
Writer:David Henry Hwang

Description: The true story of the arrest of a French diplomat for leaking information to a Chinese opera singer he had an affair with for years, who was also a spy. The twist in the story is that the singer was actually a man who deceived the diplomat into thinking he was a woman.

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