FILMCBCousin Bette1998

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How Long Is “Cousin Bette”?

Name: Cousin Bette
Genre: comedy-drama, adaptation, costumer
Released: 1998-06-12
Duration: 110 min
Cast: Jessica Lange, Elisabeth Shue, Bob Hoskins, Hugh Laurie, Laura Fraser

1h 50m runtime

19981h 50mcomedy-drama • adaptation • costumer

Comedy-drama film with a runtime of 110 minutes, released in 1998. Presented in English.

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Runtime1h 50m

Minutes110

One SittingYes

With Break2h 2m

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Acclaimed theater director Des McAnuff made his feature-film directorial debut with this period comedy-drama adapted from Honore de Balzac's novel La Cousine Bette (1846) about a jealous and bitter spinster who attempts to destroy the romance between her niece and a Polish sculptor. In Paris of the 1840s, spinster Bette Fisher (Jessica Lange) steps in to "take care" of her relatives after a decline in the Hulot family fortunes, mainly due to wastrel Hector Hulot (Hugh Laurie). After penniless sculptor Wenceslas Steinbach (Aden Young) marries Hector's daughter, Hortense (Kelly Macdonald), Bette schemes and plots, drawing Hector's mistress, music-hall star Jenny Cadine (Elisabeth Shue), into her web by arranging for wealthy Cesar Crevel (Bob Hoskins) to become Jenny's benefactor. Filmed at locations in and around Bordeaux. Shown at the 1998 Seattle Film Festival.

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Runtime1h 50m

Can Finish TonightYes

One SittingYes

With Break2h 2m

Movie Facts

Release DateJune 12, 1998

Runtime1h 50m

LanguageEnglish

Genrescomedy-drama, adaptation, costumer

DirectorDes McAnuff

ProducerSarah Radclyffe

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