Leonor Varela, Billy Zane, Timothy Dalton

Cleopatra, the famed Egyptian Queen (Leonor Varela) born in 69 B.C., is shown to have been brought by Roman ruler Julius Caesar (Timothy Dalton) at age 18. Caesar becomes sexually obsessed by the 18 y...( read more  read more... )ear old queen, beds her, and eventually has a son by her. However, his Roman followers and his wife are not pleased by the union. In fact, as Caesar has only a daughter by his wife, he had picked Octavian (Rupert Graves) as his successor. The out-of-wedlock son of Cleopatra is seen to be a threat to his future leadership. Thus Brutus (Sean Pertwee) and other Roman legislators plot the assassination of Caesar. Caesar's loyal general, Marc Antony (Billy Zane), and Octavian then divide up the Roman empire. Antony takes Egypt and soon takes up the affair with Cleopatra. However, Octavian soon launches an attack on Antony and ultimately defeats and mortally wounds him. Rather than permitting herself to be humiliated by Octavian, Cleopatra sends her son away to India and she commits suicide by permitting the deadly asp to bite her.

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Unrated, 139 min.

Directed by: Franc Roddam

Release Date: May 23, 1999

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DVD Release Date: July 25, 2000

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  • July 27, 2009
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  • February 23, 2009
    even in the film adaptation, i still love the cunning cleopatra...i won't get tired reading and watching this power lady...
  • December 29, 2008
    Billy Zane was great but Dalton and Varela were cursed with either bad acting or over acting. Her portrayal of mighty Cleopatra was incomprehensible at times. Not convincing.
  • November 5, 2008
    Leonor Varela, her acting so amateurish next to that of Timothy Dalton and Billy Zane. Her potrayal of the queen of Egypt pales in comparison to E. Taylor but its good for TV version.
  • October 27, 2008
    i like this one the most out of all cleopatra movies
  • August 6, 2008
    Great adaptation of this story. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing. I just don't understand why Rufio had to betray Cleopatra in the very end.
  • August 4, 2008
    skip and see the 1963 version

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  • alex7718
    November 1, 2007
    saw this moive in history class it was pretty good

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