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Interview with the Vampire
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
1994 · Directed by Neil Jordan · 123 min · Horror · Drama · Fantasy · Screenplay in the scene database · 71 frames
Tagline
Drink from me and live forever.
Plot
In 1991 San Francisco, reporter Daniel Molloy interviews Louis de Pointe du Lac, who claims to be a vampire. He begins with his human life as a wealthy plantation owner in 1791 Louisiana. Despondent following the death of his pregnant wife and their future baby, he drunkenly wanders the waterfront of New Orleans one night and is attacked by vampire Lestat de Lioncourt. Lestat senses Louis's dissatisfaction with life and offers to turn him into a vampire.
Louis accepts but quickly comes to regret it. While Lestat revels in the hunt and killing of humans, Louis resists his instinct to kill, to Lestat's annoyance, instead drinking animal blood to sustain himself.
Eventually, amid an outbreak of plague in New Orleans, Louis feeds on a little girl whose mother died in the plague. To entice Louis to stay with him, Lestat turns the dying girl, Claudia, into a vampire. Together, they raise her as a daughter. Louis loves Claudia, while Lestat spoils and treats her more as a pupil, training her to become a merciless killer.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Screenplay: Anne Rice
- Cinematography: Philippe Rousselot
- Edited by: Mick Audsley, Joke van Wijk
- Music: Elliot Goldenthal
- Production design: Dante Ferretti
- Produced by: David Geffen, Stephen Woolley
Cast
- Tom Cruise as Lestat
- Brad Pitt as Louis
- Antonio Banderas as Armand
- Christian Slater as Malloy
- Stephen Rea as Santiago
- Kirsten Dunst as Claudia
- Domiziana Giordano as Madeleine
- Thandiwe Newton as Yvette
- Laure Marsac as Mortal Woman on Stage
- John McConnell as Gambler
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, French
- Studios: Geffen Pictures
- Budget: $60,000,000
- Box office: $223,664,608
- Themes: paris, france, based on novel or book, san francisco, california, vampire, bite, new orleans, louisiana, plantation, louisiana, pity, child vampire
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