Emmanuelle Seigner, Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas

While traveling aboard a luxury liner, a straitlaced British couple's marriage is undermined by the machinations of a dissolute, crippled American writer and his French wife.

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R, 2 hrs. 19 min.

Directed by: Roman Polanski

Release Date: January 1, 1992

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DVD Release Date: June 3, 2003

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  • November 1, 2007
    There are some people who would have you believe that Polanski made little of worth between "Chinatown" in 1974 and his critical comeback "The Pianist" in 2002. I may be biased but I can find something great in just about everything he shoots and I would rate this as one of his b...( read more)est movies. It's a dark and disturbing but blackly comic tale of an obsessive and destructive relationship. Polanski often struggles to bring a film in under two hours, and he doesn't do so here, but it's compulsive viewing from start to finish. Peter Coyote is magnificent and Hugh Grant's stammering upper-class-twit act has never been used to better effect. On the downside, Vangelis' soundtrack is very dreary.
  • July 29, 2007
    Polanski accomplishes another quest for love in the depths of hell. an outstanding and upsetting erotic drama. Peter Coyote completely steals the movie.
  • March 11, 2007
    Not your usual Hugh Grant movie! An American writer recounts the story of his perverse relationship with his beautiful wife to a frigid British couple on a cruise. Absorbing stuff.
  • March 31, 2009
    A naughty film!! but really good story and performances!
  • December 20, 2008
    Supposed to be trashy fun, but it's mostly just trashy.
  • November 24, 2009
    Liner stories. What a story !!!!!!!!!!1
  • November 14, 2009
    Lovers a huis clos
    Secret passions burn out quick
    psycho / sexual
  • October 31, 2009
    Amazing studium for me just one of the best movies ever
  • August 27, 2009
    Un par de parejas hacen amistad en un viaje en el que se dan encuentros y problemas. Excelente.
  • July 6, 2009
    Really liked it. Harsh but seems real.

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