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Girl With a Pearl Earring
| Rating: | PG-13 (for some sexual content) |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Release Date: | December 12, 2003 |
| Running time: | 95 minutes |
| Cast: | Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt, Cillian Murphy |
| Director: | Peter Webber |
| Producer: | Philip Erdoes |
| Writer: | Tracy Chevalier, Olivia Hetreed |
| Distributor: | Lions Gate Films Inc. |
Description: A speculative account of the life of Griet, a 16-year-old girl who appears in Johannes Vermeer's painting of the same title. Set in 17th century Holland, Griet is employed by Vermeer as a housemaid to care for his six children, his jealous pregnant wife and his uncommunicative mother-in-law. Tensions arise when Vermeer's wife suspects intimacy between her husband and the girl--and then climax, when the wife discovers that Griet borrowed her precious pearl earrings to sit for the now famous portrait.
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