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Edition: Unabridged, Audio Cassette, Blackstone Audiobooks

Pages: 496, Paperback, Modern Library

Pages: 568, Paperback, Nabu Press

Born plain and poor, Bette Fischer endures her lot, until her wealthy cousin's family steals her only treasure - the young sculptor she has taken under her wing. Joining forces with the ambitious, greedy, and alluring Valeria Marneffe, Bette vows to have her revenge and sets out to ruin the family be exploiting the sexual appetites of the men and the naiveté of the women.

Genre: Comedy Drama. Category Comedy of Manners, Period Film. Theme: Social Climbing, Class Differences. Studio: 20th Century Fox. Run Time: 01 hr 50 min. Language: English. Subtitle Language: Spanish, English. Picture Format: widescreen. Release Date: December 22, 1998.

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 sculptor...

There are revenge movies with lots of blood and guts and there are revenge movies, like Cousin Bette, that involves the bloodless total destruction of human beings. This movie adaptation of Honoré de Balzac's novel is set in France in 1846, immediately before the revolution. Cousin Bette, played by Jessica Lang, is a spinster in an amoral society who has been wronged by an entire family of greedy, wretched and irresponsible people and by a starving artist. Thinking she was about to become engage...

After Her Cousin's Family Steals Away Her Handsome Young, Protege, Bette Conspires With A Beautiful & Ambitious Younger, Woman To Trap The Philandering Men & Ruin The Family.

Jessica Lang is a scorned woman who seeks sweet revenge by manipulating a sexual temptress names Jenny (Elisabeth Shue) into doing her dirty work. With little persuasion, Jenny is soon sleeping with, then discarding every man in Paris, setting off a chain of disastrous events that ensnares almost everyone in its web--everyone, that is, except Cousin Bette. Who knew adultery, financial ruin, life-threatening duels and murder could be such fun?

Product DetailsOriginal Title:Cousin BetteActors: Bob Hoskins - Elizabeth Shue - Jessica Lange - Kelly MacdonaldDirector: Des McanuffCondition: USEDFormat: DVDFormat Size: WidescreenRuntime: 108 minsLanguage: English Subtitle: Spanish SubtitlesDiscs: 1Region code: Region 1 (United States, Canada, Bermuda, U.S. territories)Rating: RGenre: DramaRelease Year: 1997Description: "Jessica Lange is a scorned woman who seeks sweet revenge by manipulating a sexual temptress named Jenny (Elisabeth Shue) into...

Elisabeth Fisher (Jessica Lange), known to her relatives as Bette, is a humble seamstress in a burlesque theatre in Paris. She has always been taken for granted by her rich relations, and has never enjoyed the love and affections of an admirer. Bette falls in love with the penniless artist Wenceslas Steinbach (Aden Young) and saves his life when he tries to commit suicide. Excerting a control over him, Bette believes that her feelings of love are mutual. But when Wenceslas falls in love with...

An embittered spinster rains vengeance upon her wealthy family after a beautiful niece steals her handsome protégé in this classic BBC drama based on the novel by Honoré de Balzac and starring revered British actress Helen Mirren in her very first mini-series. Cousin Bette is approaching middle-age, and earns her keep as an embroiderer whose beautiful work belies the pent-up resentment she feels towards her wealthy family. When her handsome protégé runs off with her gorgeous young niece, an...

Jessica Lange (A Thousand Acres) and Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas) star in this witty satire set in mid-19th century France. Based on the writings of Honore de Balzac, "Cousin Bette" is a gleeful tale of lust, greed and murder. LBX 1.85:1/ English:Dolby Surround/ SUB:Spanish.

“Bette is a wronged soul; and when her passion does break, it is, as Balzac says, sublime and terrifying,” wrote V. S. Pritchett. A late masterpiece in Balzac’s La Comédie Humaine, Cousin Bette is the story of a Vosges peasant who rebels against her scornful upper-class relatives, skillfully turning their selfish obsessions against them. The novel exemplifies what Henry James described as Balzac’s “huge, all-compassing, all-desiring, all-devouring love of reality.”