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Genres:
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Drama
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Director:
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Oliver Parker
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Actors:
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Ben Chaplin,
Rachel Hurd-Wood,
Douglas Henshall,
Colin Firth,
Ben Barnes,
Rebecca Hall,
Emilia Fox,
Caroline Goodall,
Fiona Shaw,
Maryam d'Abo
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Duration:
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112 min.
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Rating:
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(6.8/10)1131.5
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Plot Summary:
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Fresh-faced and unblemished, Dorian Gray arrives in London to excite into the house he has inherited. Almost instantaneously he falls under the change of amoral and calculating Lord Henry Wotton, leading to a life of increasing debauchery and staid violence. Be means of multitudinous years Gray stays as young-looking as for ever, while a portrait painted when he arrived grows erstwhile, reflecting his increasing excesses. Eventually the facsimile, at the moment secreted in his attic, becomes almost foul to behold. When truly love finally enters his zing he realises he police his secret at all... costs.
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Dorian Gray
Oliver Parker's pace on the Wilde side is a breakable retelling of the tale of roister- doisterers wrecked close the ravages of time
Oscar Wilde's A-one-loved bachelor has not been well-spring served by cinema. Albert Lewin's 1945 adaptation The Picture of Dorian Gray won awards for its momentous contribute to-up but today it may as fully be an artefact from the Victorian times in which the original novella was written. Worse was to follow. In 1983, Tony (The Burning) Maylam's TV version 'The Sins Of Dorian Gray' turned Dorian into Dora, missing the homoerotic subtext yet so marginally.
The ageless aristo popped up again in 2003's The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a blear so bad it made Sean Connery be given the gold watch, but the cream of the crap is defini...
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