The Libertine

Sep 16, 2004

1h 54m

★ 5.9

He didn't resist temptation. He pursued it.

Overview

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

First Choice Films

Isle of Man Film

Mr. Mudd

The Libertine Trailers

Cast

Rochester

Johnny Depp

Elizabeth Barry

Samantha Morton

Charles II

John Malkovich

Elizabeth Malet

Rosamund Pike

Chiffinch

Paul Ritter

Keown

Stanley Townsend

Countess

Francesca Annis

Etherege

Tom Hollander

Sackville

Johnny Vegas

Alcock

Richard Coyle

Vaughan

Tom Burke

Ratcliffe

Hugh Sachs

A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.

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