Genre: Fantasy / Horror
Director: Dave Rosenbaum
Producer: Steven Gordon
Cast: Josh Duhamel (NBC'S Las Vegas, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton)
Running Time: 90 mins
Year of Production: 2004 Country of Origin: Bulgaria
Delivery Status: Completed
One of the world's most scandalous and intriguing classics, The Picture of Dorian Gray, lives on. From the dramatic genius of Oscar Wilde comes a new film where corruption, romance, revenge and redemption collide.
Dorian Gray (Emmy Award winning Josh Duhamel, NBC's Las Vegas, How to Win a Date with Tad Hamilton) arrives a pure young man at the studio of his friend, painter Basil Ward, but is slowly corrupted by the cynical Harry Wotton. Spellbound before his newly painted portrait, Dorian utters a fateful wish: In exchange for eternal youth, he gives up his soul.
For many decades, Dorian tries to watch impassively as he brings misery and death to those who love him. But the portrait is always watching him, and becomes increasingly more hideous by the marks of sin. It confronts Dorian with the reflection of his fall from grace. With madness in his veins, Dorian makes the ultimate sacrifice, vainly attempting to return his portrait to its youthful splendor.
In a cautionary tale of self-destruction from a master storyteller, Oscar Wilde's masterpiece has warned generations of the horrific pitfalls of vanity and greed, and their deadly consequences.
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