Dangerous Liaisons

Mystery, Romance

Glenn Close	Marquise De Merteuil
John Malkovich	Vicomte De Valmont
Michelle Pfeiffer	Madame De Tourvel
Swoosie Kurtz	Madame De Volanges
Keanu Reeves	Chevalier Danceny
Uma Thurman	Cecile De Volanges
Mildred Natwick	Madame De Rosemonde
Peter Capaldi	Azolan
Joe Sheridan	Georges
Laura Benson	Emilie

Director	Stephen Frears
Producer	Christopher Hampton; Hank Moonjean
Writer	Christopher Hampton; Choderlos de Laclos
Cinematography	Philippe Rousselot
Musician	George Fenton

In the mid 1700’s France, the Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil (Glenn Close) and the Vicomte Sebastien de Valmont (John Malkovich) are wealthy and bored. They use people to suit them, whether it be for sex, money, greed, jealousy, or sheer entertainment. When the Marquise love interest chooses the younger, wholesome Cecile de Volanges (Uma Thurman), she sets out to destroy her reputation. Sebastien at first is not interested in the challenge, because he is on a quest to ruin the virtuous Madame Marie de Tourvel (Michelle Pfeiffer). Although he acts like a nice gentleman about Marie, he finds that she was warned about his true nature by Cecile’s mother. Now, he agrees to ruin Cecile and Isabelle agrees to sleep with him if he ruins Marie. As the two start to twist the fates of these two girls for their dark purposes, they both get more and more entangled in the treachery. The deeper they get, the more dangerous it becomes for all parties involved.