GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING (2003)

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	December 12th, 2003 (NY, LA, SF: December 26; wider: January 9, 2004)
	Peter Webber
	Olivia Hetreed
	Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Essie Davis, Alakina Mann, Cillian Murphy, Judy Parfitt, Leslie Woodhall
	Lions Gate Films
	Drama
	girlwithapearlearringmovie.com
	PG-13 for some sexual content
	99 minutes
	$11,634,000 (US total)
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Set in 17th century Holland, "Girl with a Pearl Earring" tells the imagined, intriguing and highly seductive story behind one of Vermeer's greatest and most enigmatic paintings. Griet (Johansson), a tilemaker's daughter, is forced by tragedy to become a maid for the master painter (Firth). Fascinated by his craft, she soon shows an aptitude for helping in his studio, where she finds herself drawn to the man and his world of color and light. As she becomes part of his work, their growing intimacy spreads disruption and jealousy within his ordered household and beyond, fuelling a scandal which threatens to ruin them all.

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"A moving portrait painted onscreen. Each frame is an artistic representation of Dutch realism wrapped around a simple story and brought to life by an amazing cast."

- Derek May