Movie Description:
Based on the towering 18thcentury novel by Samuel Richardson--the originaltale of fatal attraction and the model for allliterary dangerous liasons tocome--this acclaimed BBC production fea-tures an impressive line-up of stars, including Sean Bean, Saskia Wickham, hermione Norris, and Sean Pertwee. Sean Bean plays Lovelace, a hand- some rake determined toseduce--and thusdestroy--the beautiful young virgin Clarissa harlowe, a wealthy heiressfamed for her virtue. As Clarissa is forced by her scheming family into the predatory Lovelace`s arms, it seems cer-tain that he will succeed. But Lovelacehas failed to reckon with both Clarissasstrength of character and his one fatal weakness: his own heart. For the first time inhis life, he becomes genuinely iinfatuated with his prey--a failing thatdrives him to new heights of decadence and sows the seeds of his own destruct- ion.
