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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
Jun 12, 1998 Wide
Dec 22, 1998
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Plays more like a crinolined episode of 'Dynasty.'
A revenge drama, with Lange's Bette pulling the strings.
It is pleasantly engaging off and on, but its dark mood and grim wit are so unrelenting it may ultimately seem oppressive.
Jessica Lange plays a family's dowdy ugly duckling, given the short shrift habitually, who's as mad as hell and not going to take it anymore in this flighty costumer that promises more than it delivers. Revenge, served at room temperature.
September 28, 2011Super Reviewer
"Cousin Bette" starts in 1846 in Paris where Bette(Jessica Lange) declines an offer following the death of her sister(Geraldine Chaplin) to serve in the widow's(Hugh Laurie) household. Instead, she makes ends meet barely in a variety of tasks including making costumes for the theatre. Despite that, she still visits
April 4, 2008Super Reviewer
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