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MPAA Raing: R
Director: Laurence Dunmore
Genres: Period Film, Biopic [feature], Drama
Released Date: November 25, 2005 (USA March 10, 2006 (USA)
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Summary:
A man who lives for pleasure finds his hedonism betrays him in time in this film adaptation of the play by Stephen Jeffreys. The second Earl of Rochester, John Wilmot (Johnny Depp), was a notorious figure in 17th century Europe; well-respected as a poet and author, Wilmot also earned no small degree of gossip for his freewheeling sex life and appetite for decadence. Wilmot}... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Johnny Depp - (John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester)
John Malkovich - (King Charles II)
Samantha Morton - (Elizabeth Berry)
Rosamund Pike - (Elizabeth Malet)
Tom Hollander - (Sir George Etherege)
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Review:
The problem with The Libertine is not that we don't like Johnny_Depp's debaucherous and self-destructive Second Earl of Rochester -- as he anticipates in a prologue at the film's outset. The problem is that we never get to know him well enough to have much opinion about him at all. This is not for a lack of hardcore acting, as Depp deli... Continue >>

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