Dracula

Year:

1992

Duration:

128 min

Genres:

Horror | Romance

IMDB rate:

7.5

Director:

Francis Ford Coppola

Awards:

Won 3 Oscars. Another 12 wins & 15 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1992-11-13

Filming Locations: Culver City, California, USA

Earnings

Budget: $40,000,000

Opening Weekend: $30,521,679 (USA) (12 August 2012)

Gross: $82,522,790 (USA)$215,862,692 (Worldwide)

Cast

Actor

Character

Monica Bellucci

Dracula

Richard E. Grant

Dracula

Gary Oldman

Dracula

Winona Ryder

Mina Murray

Anthony Hopkins

Professor Abraham Van Helsing

Keanu Reeves

Jonathan Harker

Cary Elwes

Lord Arthur Holmwood

Billy Campbell

Quincey P. Morris

Sadie Frost

Lucy Westenra

Tom Waits

R.M. Renfield

Michaela Bercu

Dracula's Bride

Florina Kendrick

Dracula's Bride

Jay Robinson

Mr. Hawkins

I.M. Hobson

Hobbs

Laurie Franks

Lucy's Maid

Maud Winchester

Downstairs Maid

Octavian Cadia

Deacon

Robert Getz

Priest

Dagmar Stanec

Sister Agatha

Eniko Öss

Sister Sylva

Nancy Linehan Charles

Older Woman

Tatiana von Furstenberg

Younger Woman

Jules Sylvester

Zookeeper

Hubert Wells

Zookeeper

Daniel Newman

News Hawker

Honey Lauren

Peep Show Girl

Judi Diamond

Peep Show Girl

Robert Buckingham

Husband

Cully Fredricksen

Van Helsing's Assistant

Ele Bardha

Grave Digger

Alain Blazevic

Van Helsing's Student

Mark Borkowski

Van Helsing's Student

Christina Fulton

Vampire Girl

Jeffery Thomas Johnson

Van Helsing's Student

Paul Klar

Soldier

Michael Laren

Priest

Moreen Littrell

Impaled Dancer (uncredited)

Joe Murkijanian

Monk

Adamo Palladino

Dock Loader

Philip Pucci

Lorryman

John Michael Quinn

Apothacary

Heidi Schooler

Young Courtesan

Did you know?

Trivia

The little girl who played the child carried into the crypt by Lucy was genuinely terrified of Sadie Frost in her vampire make-up, and obviously wasn't expecting to do more than one take. Director Francis Ford Coppola and Sadie Frost had to do a lot of sweet-talking to the child in order to get her back in Sadie's arms for another go at the scene.

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Winona Ryder saw the script when it was originally going to be made as a TV movie, directed by Michael Apted. She took the script to Francis Ford Coppola, whom she had not spoken to since withdrawing from The Godfather: Part III (1990) due to exhaustion six months earlier. Coppola agreed to make the film, and Apted stayed on as executive producer.

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This is the first major US motion picture to be edited entirely on a nonlinear edit system.

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Goofs

When Lucy shows Mina the illustrations in "Arabian Nights," the art is not Islamic but Indian; specifically, they are in the style of Mogul miniatures.

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After Jonathan's hair turns gray, throughout the rest of the film, it goes back to being dark again, with very little gray, and switches back to gray. However, this is an effect of Jonathan having been subjected to predation by vampires under Dracula's aura, so it's not a surprise if his hair color changes at the same rate of Dracula's shape and power.

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The vampire woman who rises between Jonathan's legs is at the foot of the bed. Jonathan is sitting on the bed's right-hand side, not at the foot.

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Quotes

Mina: [to Jonathan] When my time comes, will you do the same to me? Will you?

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Quincey P. Morris: And may I say that Miss Lucy is hotter than a June bride riding bareback buck naked in the middle of the Sahara!

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Renfield: I'm no lunatic man. I'm a sane man fighting for his soul.

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Faq

Q

What is 'Dracula' about?

A

English lawyer Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves) is sent to Transylvania to arrange for the purchase of several London properties for Count Dracula (Gary Oldman), not knowing that Dracula is actually a vampire. While there, he is imprisoned and left for dead when Dracula sets sail to England with a photo of Harker's fiancee, Mina Murray (Winona Ryder), whom he believes to be the reincarnation of his lost love Elisabeta. While wooing Mina, Dracula drains the blood of Mina's best friend, Lucy Westenra (Sadie Frost), causing her fiance Lord Arthur Holmwood (Cary Elwes) and his friends -- Doctor Jack Seward (Richard E. Grant) and Texan Quincy P. Morris (Billy Campbell) -- to arrange for an eccentric metaphysician-philosopher, Professor Abraham Van Helsing (Anthony Hopkins), to come from Amsterdam in order to save Lucy and destroy the vampire.

Q

Is "Dracula" based on a book?

A

Dracula is based on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel of the same name. The novel was adapted for this movie by American screenwriter James V. Hart. Stoker's novel has provided the basis for numerous movies about Dracula, including (but not limited to) Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922), Dracula (1931), Dracula (1958), Count Dracula (1977), and Dracula (1979).

Q

Is it true vampires cannot cross running water?

A

As all myths of this nature are confabulations of ideas that accumulate with successive tellings and interpretations, there is of course no "true" version. Dracula crosses the water in several films while in his coffin and flies over water in other films, so at least in the movie, Dracula has no problem with this. The original legend was that witches could not cross water; some tales subsequently extended it to apply to vampires as well.

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