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| A partially undressed Catherine McCormack looking sensually at you from a bed of red velvet invites with a tag-line of a 'life without compromise' on this poster for Marshall Herskovitz's Dangerous Beauty |
A beautiful woman in 16th century Venice falls for a nobleman and he for her, but their stand in society prevents them from marrying, so that she instead becomes his courtesan.
Dangerous Beauty is written by Jeannine Dominy (American Experience (1991, TV series documentary), controller), adapting the non-fiction book The Honest Courtesan (1992) by Margaret Rosenthal, and directed by Marshall Herskovitz (Jack the Bear (1993)).
The Italians are British (actors), which is symptomatic for a film in which every component tastes artificially. Rufus Sewell (Carrington (1995)) doesn't appear as a real man here as the nobleman, who beds just about half the city, but the seemingly (in its own evaluation) 'risqué' film actually has only one dry sex scene.
Dangerous Beauty is pompous and poor on nuances as it snails its way forward: It is a deadly boring, well-behaved women's magazine type of film, in which lead Catherine McCormack (A Sound of Thunder (2005)) is eventually accused of being a witch due to her promiscuous lifestyle.
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Watch a trailer for the film here
Cost: Estimated 8 mil. $
Box office: In excess of 4.5 mil. $ (North America only)
= Uncertain but likely a huge flop - better than 0.56 times its cost
[Dangerous Beauty was released 20 February (USA) and runs 112 minutes. Shooting took place around April 1996 in Italy, including Rome. The film opened #17 to a 105k $ first weekend in 10 theaters in North America, where it grossed 4.5 mil. $. The film's international gross numbers are regrettably not reported online. The film was likely less successful abroad and may have landed at a realistic 7 mil. $ gross, which would be a 0.87 return, ranking the film still a 'huge flop'. Roger Ebert gave the film a 3.5/4 star review, translating to 4 notches over this one. Herskovitz never directed another feature but did direct 3 TV credits and turned towards producing in the next two decades. McCormack returned in Dancing at Lughnasa (1998); Sewell in Dark City (1998). Dangerous Beauty is fresh at 68 % with a 6.40/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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