Overview:
Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable years in prison, Dantés escapes with the help of a fellow inmate and plots his revenge, cleverly insinuating himself into the French nobility.| Status: | Released (2002-01-23) |
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| BoxOffice: | $54,234,062 |
| Screen: | Alexandre Dumas, Jay Wolpert |
| Productions: | Touchstone Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, World 2000 Entertainment, Count of Monte Cristo Ltd., Epsilon Motion Pictures |
| Production Countries: | Ireland, United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English, Italiano, Español |
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Casts
- 8767: Jim Caviezel - Edmond Dantes
- 529: Guy Pearce - Fernand Mondego
- 194: Richard Harris - Abbé Faria
- 22063: James Frain - J.F. Villefort
- 52776: Dagmara Dominczyk - Mercedes Iguanada
- 7486: Michael Wincott - Armand Dorleac
- 40481: Luis Guzmán - Jacopo
Crews
- 24840: Alexandre Dumas - Novel - Writing
- 8300: Kevin Reynolds - Director - Directing
- 4507: Gary Barber - Producer - Production
- 48070: Stephen Semel - Editor - Editing
- 1708: Jay Wolpert - Screenplay - Writing
- 8846: Andrew Dunn - Director of Photography - Camera
- 43625: Mark Geraghty - Production Design - Art
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Reviews
John Chard
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Fantastic story given a quite smashing adaptation. Every once in a while, when Hollywood is stuck for new swashbuckling ideas, they turn to the writer of "The Three Musketeers", "The Man In The Iron Mask" and "The Count Of Monte Cristo", one Alexandre Dumas père. Which of course ....
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Jim Caviezel is adequate, no better, as the wronged "Edmond" who gets caught up in a Napoleonic conspiracy that sees him confined on a remote island prison from which no-one escapes alive. His situation seems hopeless, until he receives an unlikely visitor - the elderly Abbe Faria (R ....
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Well, it's not one quality... but I like to do a thumbs up or thumbs down approach. If the movie entertains a thumbs up, if it doesn't a thumbs down. Seems simpler than debating on a 4, a 5, a 6, whatever. This is also kind of why I want to be able to review individual actors, jus ....
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