Dangerous Beauty

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Dangerous Beauty is a 1998 American biographical drama film directed by Marshall Herskovitz, and starring Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell and Oliver Platt. Based on the non-fiction book The Honest Courtesan by Margaret Rosenthal, the film is about Veronica Franco, a courtesan in sixteenth-century Venice who becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft. The film features a supporting cast that includes Fred Ward, Naomi Watts, Moira Kelly and Jacqueline Bisset. The film was released as A Destiny of Her Own in some regions, and was retitled The Honest Courtesan for its UK release. Dangerous Beauty was released on February 20, 1998 by Warner Bros. in the United States and Canada, with 20th Century Fox releasing in other territories. The film received mixed to positive reviews but was a box office bomb, grossing $4.55 million against an estimated $8 million budget.

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