| Dangerous Beauty Review |
| by Jon Popick |
| Poor Veronica. She’s in love with the wealthy Senator, Marco Venier.
But because of that pesky caste system, it is impossible for them to
marry. So Veronica does the next logical thing. She becomes a
courtesan. more |
| Dangerous Beauty Review |
| by Greg King |
| A DESTINY OF HER OWN (M).
(Twentieth Century Fox)
Director: Marshall Herskovitz
Stars: Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Oliver Platt, Moira Kelly,
Naomi Watts, Jacqueline Bissett,
Fred Ward, Jake Weber, Jeroen Krabbe, Joanna Cassidy, Daniel...more |
| Dangerous Beauty Review |
| by Jon Popick |
| Poor Veronica. She’s in love with the wealthy Senator, Marco Venier.
But because of that pesky caste system, it is impossible for them to
marry. So Veronica does the next logical thing. She becomes a
courtesan. more |
| Dangerous Beauty Review |
| by James Kendrick |
| Director: Marshall Herskovitz || Screenplay: Jeannine Dominy
(based on the book "The Honest Courtesan" by Margaret Rosenthal)
|| Stars: Catherine McCormack (Veronica Franco), Rufus Sewell
(Marco Venier), Jacqueline Bisset (Paola Franco), Oliver...more |
| Dangerous Beauty Review |
| by Nathaniel R. Atcheson |
| Director: Marshall Herskovitz
Cast: Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Jacqueline Bisset, Oliver
Platt, Moira Kelly, Fred Ward
Screenplay: Jeannine Dominy
Producers: Sarah Caplan, Marshall Herskovitz, Arnon Milchan
Runtime: 111 min.
US...more |
| Dangerous Beauty Review |
| by Matt Williams |
| Marshall Herskovitz directs this alternatively comic and earnestly
serious period piece based on the biography of a famous 16th century
poet/courtesan, Veronica Franco. more |
| Dangerous Beauty Review |
| by Steve Kong |
| You find out from the man that you love that he cannot marry you. Why?
Because you are in a different economic class than he is and your father
has spent your entire dowry. So, what's a girl to do? Become an
over-priced, well-educated prostitute for...more |
| Dangerous Beauty Review |
| by Mark R Leeper |
| Capsule: The rewards and hazards of being a
courtesan in late 16th century Venice are the
subject of this not-particularly-original morality
play. Catherine McCormack is charming as the
reluctant...more |
| Dangerous Beauty Review |
| by Harvey S. Karten |
| Reviewed by Harvey Karten, Ph.D.
Warner Bros./Regency Enterprises
Director: Marshall Herskovitz
Writer: Jeannine Dominy, biography by Margaret Rosenthal
Cast: Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Jacqueline
Bisset, Oliver Platt, Moira Kelly, Joanna...more |
| Dangerous Beauty Review |
| by Scott Renshaw |
| DANGEROUS BEAUTY
(Warner Bros.)
Starring: Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Oliver Platt, Moira Kelly,
Jacqueline Bisset, Fred Ward.
Screenplay: Jeannine Dominy, based on the novel "The Honest Courtesan" by
Margaret Rosenthal.
Producers: Marshall...more |
| Dangerous Beauty Review |
| by Steve Rhodes |
| As the wealthy, but illiterate, assembled wives stare in
disbelief, Veronica Franco, the highly educated courtesan, uses Latin
to discuss the common fruit she holds in her hand and then performs an
erotic act with it that challenges the laws of...more |
| Dangerous Beauty Review |
| by James Berardinelli |
| United States, 1998
U.S. Release Date: 2/27/98 (wide)
Running Length: 1:51
MPAA Classification: R (Nudity, sex, profanity, violence)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 more |
