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Pleasure (1994)

Pleasure (1994)

Drama Crime TV Movie

A Raunchy Reworking of Flaubert's Madame Bovery

Release Date: 1994, October 25
Directors: Ian Sharp
Cast: Jennifer Ehle, Trevor Byfield, Bryan Pringle, Judith Paris, Sarah Badel, Adrian Dunbar, Beth Porter, John Forgeham, Rosalind Knight, Robert Austin, James Larkin, Mark McGann

Overview:

Alan Bleasdale's modern re-telling of Madame Bovary. A tale of passion, greed, revenge, and of course pleasure, set in France. Starring Line of Duty's Adrian Dunbar, Jennifer Ehle and James Larkin. In the French city of Rouen, the beautiful, young but bored Emma seeks to escape her dull married life. Her dreams are answered, and her comfortable, peaceful existence soon tarnished when she answers a lonely-hearts ad. She meets Gustave, a unsuccessful toy salesman, and potential con man. Together they begin a passionate affair, where they indulge in illicit sex and illegal scams. But parallel to their exhilarating affair, the police are on the hunt for a mysterious masked robber known only as Le Terroriste. As the stakes rise, and a betrayal means Emma finding herself alone, her own talents for deception develop into an overwhelming and obsessive desire for her to get her revenge.