A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friend", escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friend", escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friend", escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.
Mairead Devlin
- Partygoer No. 2
- (as Maireid Devlin)
Luis Guzmán
- Jacopo
- (as Luis Guzman)
- Director
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaScreenwriter Jay Wolpert came up with the idea, not present in the novel, that Fernand Mondego (Guy Pearce) and Edmond Dantes (Jim Caviezel) started out as best friends. His logic was that it would work better as a "buddy" film that turned sinister. Wolpert believed that when a friendship soured, the hate generated was both more terrible and more believable.
- GoofsEdmond's eye color fluctuates between brown and blue throughout the movie.
- Quotes
Edmond: Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you: as Albert Mondego, the man!
- Alternate versionsThe UK version had 6 seconds cut by the BBFC to earn a PG certificate instead of a 15. The cuts were to two shots of a man being hanged.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Count of Monte Cristo: An Epic Reborn (2002)
Featured review
Good movie, if you haven't read the book
"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Dumas is one of my favorite books, it keeps you on your toes the whole time, guessing what will happen next. The movie doesn't accomplish this as well. While the book is subtle with the Count's revenge, the movie screams for all to hear. "The Count of Monte Cristo, formerly Edmund Dantes is going to get revenge on his friends!!!" They left out 3 main characters, and DRASTICALLY changed the ending, they had to, the end involves those 3 characters they left out. But I did like the movie and if you enjoy it too I encourage you to read the book!
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- sarawoah
- Aug 9, 2003
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- Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo
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- Budget
- $35,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $54,234,062
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $11,376,150
- Jan 27, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $75,395,048
- Runtime2 hours 11 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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