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View larger Girl with a Pearl Earring Starring: Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Essie Davis, Alakina Mann, Cillian Murphy, Judy Parfitt, Leslie Woodhall Directed by: Peter Webber Screenplay by: Olivia Hetreed Release Date: December 12, 2003 Running Time: 99 minutes MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content. Studio: Lions Gate Films  Box-Office Totals Domestic: $11,670,971 Foreign: $19,795,818 Total: $31,466,789 (Worldwide) Box-Office Charts   Subscribe to Movies Central by Email  Subscribe in any reader  Check out Feed Central

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Tagline: Beauty inspires obsession. Set in 17th century Holland, "Girl with a Pearl Earring" tells the imagined, intriguing and highly seductive story behind one of Vermeer's greatest and most enigmatic paintings. Griet (Johansson), a tilemaker's daughter, is forced by tragedy to become a maid for the master painter (Firth). Fascinated by his craft, she soon shows an aptitude for helping in his studio, where she finds herself drawn to the man and his world of color and light. As she becomes part of his work, their growing intimacy spreads disruption and jealousy within his ordered household and beyond, fuelling a scandal which threatens to ruin them all. Delft, Holland, 1665. After her father, a tile painter, is blinded in a kiln explosion, seventeen-year-old Griet must work to support her family. She becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer and gradually attracts the master painter's attention.  Full Production Notes

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