Tulip Fever

Stunning cinematography, sets, and costumes highlight this captivating, heart-wrenching, heartwarming, star-studded (Judi Dench, Tom Hollander, Zach Galifianakis, Matthew Morrison, Kevin McKidd, Cara Delevingne, Joanna Scanlan, Douglas Hodge, Michael Smiley, and David Harewood), 107-minute film adapted from Deborah Moggach's novel in which a beautiful teenage orphan (Alicia Vikander) becomes the wife of a kindhearted, powerful, wealthy, widowed, much-older Dutch merchant (Christoph Waltz) in Amsterdam in 1634 during the frenzy tulip wars, but a few years later she unfortunately finds herself falling in love with a struggling, handsome artist (Dane DeHaan) whom her husband commissioned to paint their portraits and when her unmarried housekeeper (Holliday Grainger) gets pregnant by her fishmonger lover (Jack O'Connell), the two women concoct a reckless, harebrained scheme to solve both of their problems.
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