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The Count Of Monte Cristo

2002, Movie, PG-13, 115 mins

COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, THE | ALEXANDRE DUMAS' THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
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A ripping yarn that's survived many movie adaptations, Alexandre Dumas pere's The Count of Monte Cristo offers up more than 1000 pages of love, betrayal, action, intrigue and intricately plotted revenge; the challenge for filmmakers has always been paring it down to manageable size. At its heart is poor Edmond Dantes (The Passion of the Christ's Jim Caviezel), a young man of low birth but decent prospects who reinvents himself as the titular nobleman. Read the complete review for The Count Of Monte Cristo
Robert Donat stars in The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) as the forgotten prisoner executing his long-planned revenge.
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Posted: 9/23/2008
Synopsis: A sailor, framed for treason and imprisoned for years, hatches a revenge plot. Based on the Alexandre Dumas story.
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Posted: 11/10/2009
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The Count of Monte Cristo is Alexandre Dumas' classic story of an innocent man wrongly but deliberately imprisoned and his brilliant strategy for revenge against those who betrayed him. Dashing young sailor Edmond Dantes (Caviezal) is a guileless and honest young man whose peaceful life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes (Dominczyk) are abruptly shattered when his best friend Fernand (Pearce), who wants Mercedes for himself, deceives him. He sets him up to be unlawfully sentenced to the infamous island prison of Chateau D'If. Edmond is trapped in this nightmare that lasts for thirteen years. Haunted by the baffling course his life has taken, over time everything he ever believed about right and wrong is abandoned and replaced by all-consuming thoughts of vengeance against those who betrayed him. With the help of an equally innocent fellow inmate (Harris), Dantes plots and succeeds in his mission to escape from prison, whereupon he transforms himself into the mysterious and wealt
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Length: 02:15
Posted: 7/23/2009
A young officer, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friends," escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.
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Length: 01:44:00
Posted: 1/2/2009
Year: 2002
Rated PG-13

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Cast
James Caviezel: Edmond Dantes
Guy Pearce: Fernand Mondego
Richard Harris: Abbe Faria
James Frain: Villefort
Dagmara Dominczyk: Mercedes
Luis Guzman: Jacopo

 

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