PG-13 (for adventure violence/swordplay and some sensuality)
Genre:
Drama
Release Date:
January 25, 2002
Running time:
131 minutes
Cast:
Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Richard Harris, Dagmara Dominczyk, Luis Guzman
Director:
Kevin Reynolds
Producer:
Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Jonathan Glickman
Writer:
Jay Wolpert
Distributor:
Touchstone Pictures
Description: Dashing young sailor Edmond Dantes is a guileless and honest man, whose peaceful life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are abruptly shattered when his best friend Fernand, who wants Mercedes for himself, deceives him. Set up to be unlawfully sentenced to the infamous island prison of Chateau D'If, Edmond is trapped in a nightmare that lasts for thirteen years. Over time everything he ever believed about right and wrong is abandoned and replaced by all-consuming thoughts of vengeance against those who betrayed him. With the help of an equally innocent fellow inmate, Dantes plots and succeeds in his mission to escape from prison, whereupon he transforms himself into the mysterious and wealthy Count of Monte Cristo. With cunning ruthlessness, he cleverly insinuates himself into the French nobility and systematically destroys the men who manipulated and enslaved him.
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