“Prepare for adventure. Count on revenge.”
Overview
Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable years in prison, Dantés escapes with the help of a fellow inmate and plots his revenge, cleverly insinuating himself into the French nobility.
Directed by Kevin Reynolds
Written by Jay Wolpert, Alexandre Dumas
Produced by Gary Barber, Jonathan Glickman, Roger Birnbaum
Box OfficeBudget: $35.0MRevenue: $75.4M
Themes & Keywords
treasurebased on novel or bookloss of loved onemarseille, francefemale loverex-lovernapoleon bonaparteprison escapesword fighttortureperiod dramahistoricalswashbucklerbetrayal by friend19th centuryawestruckprisão
About The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo is a adventure, drama, history, action, thriller film released in 2002 exploring themes of treasure, based on novel or book, loss of loved one, marseille, france, female lover, ex-lover. Directed by Kevin Reynolds, it stars Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Richard Harris. Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable years in prison, Dantés escapes with the help of a fellow inmate and plots his revenge, cleverly insinuating himself into the French nobility.