 The Libertine
Starring: John Malkovich, Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, Rosamund Pike, Tom Hollander, Francesca Annis
Directed by: Laurence Dunmore
Screenplay by: Stephen Jeffreys
Release Date: November 25, 2005
MPAA Rating: R for strong sexuality including dialogue, violence and language.
Studio: Miramax Films
 Domestic: $4,835,065 (44.6%)
Foreign: $6,016,999 (55.4%)
Total: $10,852,064 (Worldwide)
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 He didn't resist temptation. He pursued it.
'The Libertine' follows the adventures of John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, in London of the 17th century. He has a passionate romance with a young actress, Elizabeth Barry, and he writes a scurrilous play which lampoons the monarch who commissioned it, Charles II, leading to the Earl's banishment and eventual downfall.
Johnny Depp stars in "The Libertine" as the scandalously decadent John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester. The film follows the Earl's adventures in London, from his passionate romance with a young actress, Elizabeth Barry (Samantha Morton), to the writing of a scurrilous play which blisteringly and bawdily lampoons the very monarch who commissioned it, Charles II (John Malkovich), leading to the Earl's banishment and eventual downfall.
Laurence Dunmore makes an assured directorial debut, creating a period atmosphere that combines the dark debauched underbelly of London with the allure and glamour of the Restoration court.
In every generation, there comes along a person so scandalous, so rebellious, so willing to break taboos that they topple the world’s ideas of what being a free spirit truly means. In the 17th century that person was unequivocally John Wilmot, AKA the 2nd Earl of Rochester -- the wily and talented rogue who in the course of his short, wild life, become known all at once as a troublemaker, a genius and one of history’s most irrepressible believers in liberty.
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