Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.

• DirectorIain Softley
• Release4 September 1997
• Genre
  Drama / Romance
• Duration1h 42m
• Budget?
• Revenue$13,692,648
• Rate
  

  6.6
  119 reviews
• Productions

  Miramax