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Moulin Rouge

Rating:PG-13 (for sexual content)
Genre:Drama, Musical, Romance
Release Date:May 18, 2001
Running time:126 minutes
Cast:Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, Jim Broadbent, John Leguizamo, Carolin O'Connor
Director:Baz Luhrmann
Producer:Baz Luhrmann, Martin Brown, Fred Baron
Writer:Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce
Distributor:20th Century Fox

Description: Christian, a young writer with a magical gift for poetry, defies his bourgeois father by moving to the bohemian underworld of Montmartre, Paris. He is taken in by the absinthe- soaked artist Toulouse- Lautrec, whose party- hard life centers aound the Moulin Rouge, a world of sex, drugs, electricity and the shocking Can-Can. Christian falls into a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with Satine, the Sparkling Diamond, the most beautiful courtesan in Paris and star of the Moulin Rouge.

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