Dangerous Liaisons
Lust. Seduction. Revenge. The game as you've never seen it played before.
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.
- Director
- Stephen Frears
- Signature
- Drama · Craft · Tension
- Worldwide
- $35M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
15 billed performers
The Nutevio profile
Movie DNA
How Dangerous Liaisons actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
Story overview
What It's About
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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.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Dangerous Liaisons returned 2.5× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $14M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $35M
- Release date
- Dec 21, 1988
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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