from Touchstone Pictures
Directed by
Kevin Reynolds
Starring
James Caviezel (Edmond Dantes)
Guy Pearce (Fernand)
Dagmara Dominiczyk (Mercedes)
James Frain
Richard Harris (Faria)
Michael Wincott
Luis Guzmán
Written by
Jay Wolpert
Rated: 
(for adventure violence / swordplay and some sensuality) |
 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 (Jim Caviezel) is a guileless and
honest young man whose peaceful life and plans to marry the beautiful
Mercedes (Dagmara Dominczyk) are abruptly shattered when his
best friend Fernand (Guy 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 (Richard Harris), Dantes
plots and succeeds in his mission to escape from prison, whereupon
he transforms himself into the mysterious and wealthy Count of
Monte Cristo. With cunning ruthlessness, he cleverly insinuates
himself into the French nobility and systematically destroys
the men who manipulated and enslaved him.
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