Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.
- plan
- lovesickness
- paris
- france
- based on novel or book
- cheating
- cynic
- sexuality
- boredom
- praise
- lover
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Glenn Close
Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
John Malkovich
Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
Michelle Pfeiffer
Madame Marie de Tourvel
Uma Thurman
Cécile de Volanges
- Swoosie Kurtz — Madame de Volanges
- Keanu Reeves — Le Chevalier Raphael Danceny
- Mildred Natwick — Madame de Rosemonde
- Peter Capaldi — Azolan
- Joe Sheridan — Georges
- Valerie Gogan — Julie
- Laura Benson — Emilie
- Joanna Pavlis — Adèle
- Nicholas Hawtrey — Major-domo
- Paulo Abel Do Nascimento — Castrato
- François Lalande — Curé
- Directed
- Stephen Frears
- Written
- Christopher Hampton
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 1,302 ratings
- Studio
- Lorimar Film Entertainment, NFH Films, Warner Bros. Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
