Christian, a young writer with a magical gift for poetry, defies his bourgeois father by moving to the bohemian underworld of Montmartre, Paris. He is taken in by the absinthe- soaked artist Toulouse- Lautrec, whose party- hard life centers aound the Moulin Rouge, a world of sex, drugs, electricity and the shocking Can-Can. Christian falls into a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with Satine, the Sparkling Diamond, the most beautiful courtesan in Paris and star of the Moulin Rouge.

GENRE: Musical, Romance
MPAA RATING: PG-13
RUN TIME: 2h 6m
RELEASE DATE: June 01, 2001
STARRING: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh
DIRECTOR(S): Baz Luhrmann
PRODUCER(S): Fred Baron, Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann
WRITER(S): Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce
STUDIO: 20th Century Studios