The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover ★★★½ 1990 (R)

An exclusive restaurant houses four disturbing characters. Greenaway's powerful vision of greed, love, and violence may be too strong for some tastes. Available in several different versions: the standard unrated theatrical release, the unrated version in a letterboxed format, and an Rrated cut which runs half an hour shorter. 123m/C VHS, DVD . GB Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Tim Roth; D: Peter Greenaway; W: Peter Greenaway; C: Sacha Vierny; M: Michael Nyman.

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