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Cousin Bette (1998)
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Release Date:
12 June 1998 (USA)
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Who knew deception, treachery and revenge could be this much fun...
Plot:
Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister...
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Awards:
1 nomination
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Its better than it has a right to be...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jessica Lange | ... | Cousin Bette |
 | Elisabeth Shue | ... | Jenny Cadine |
 | Bob Hoskins | ... | Cesar Crevel |
 | Hugh Laurie | ... | Baron Hector Hulot |
 | Aden Young | ... | Count Wenceslas Steinbach |
 | Kelly Macdonald | ... | Hortense Hulot |
| Toby Stephens | ... | Victorin Hulot |
| Jefferson Mays | ... | Stidmann |
| Geraldine Chaplin | ... | Adeline Hulot |
| John Benfield | ... | Dr. Bianchon |
 | Paul Bandey | ... | Priest |
 | Laura Fraser | ... | Mariette |
| Janie Hargreaves | ... | Célestine |
| Gillian Martell | ... | Portress |
| John Sessions | ... | Musical Director |
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Rated R for sexuality.
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108 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Iceland:LH |
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:14A (Alberta) |
Canada:AA (Ontario) |
Canada:PA (Manitoba) |
Canada:PG (British Columbia) |
Australia:M |
Singapore:M18 |
Argentina:13 |
Chile:14 |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:7 |
UK:15 |
USA:R
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Vauvinet, the Moneylender:
It's the not about the money, you understand...
Victorin Hulot: I understand.
Vauvinet, the Moneylender: ...It's the principle.
Victorin Hulot: I understand.
Vauvinet, the Moneylender: So if you don't repay us, we kill you, your wife and children and throw your bodies into the Seine.
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Victorin Hulot: I understand.
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Victorin Hulot: I understand.
Vauvinet, the Moneylender: ...It's the principle.
Victorin Hulot: I understand.
Vauvinet, the Moneylender: So if you don't repay us, we kill you, your wife and children and throw your bodies into the Seine.
[pause]
Victorin Hulot: I understand.
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Referenced in "Showbiz Today: (1998-06-11)" (1998)
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Soundtrack:
The Tiger Song
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Essentially its a film which owes its origins to forties adaptations of Henry James and the like, indeed I re-watched this after watching the 1997 version of "Washington Square" starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Maggie Smith. This film is similar to the earlier version of "The Heiress" directed by William Wyler in which we were constantly told how "plain" the gorgeous Olivia DE Havilland is.
Here we are constantly being told how "plain" and unattractive Cousin Bette is when she is being played by Jessica Lange who has never been photographed in such an appealing light and here in one of her rare 'brunette' roles. The plot is way to complex to get into and start debating the absence of characters from DE Balzac's original novel. The cast is attractive and Lange, Shue and Hoskins seem to have a lot of fun with their characters and certainly John Sessions looks to be having a good time. Aden Young is attractive as a pauper and becomes rather pudgy and repellent as he increases in wealth, Kelly MacDonald seems to look as if she has permanent indigestion whilst Toby Young is woefully underused.