Cousin Bette is a 1998 British/American comedy-drama that stars Jessica Lange in the title role and is loosely based on the novel of the same name. It received lukewarm reviews and did very poorly at the box office. At the deathbed of her wealthy cousin Adeline , poor seamstress Bette Fischer promises to take care of her cousin's family. However Baron Hector Hulot , her late cousin's husband, still knowingly treats her as a "housekeeper", giving her charge over his daughter Hortense . Refusing the offer to stay in Hulot's home, Bette returns to her apartment in a rundown poorer district of... Paris, where she makes costumes for a Burlesque theatre. She becomes friends with the headliner of the show, famed courtesan Jenny Cadine . Despite her less than glamourous lifestyle, Bette finds a source of comfort in Count Wenceslas Steinbach , a young but promising artist who has fallen on hard times. Besotted by the young man, Bette does everything possible to provide for him such as buying him food and motivating him to continue with his work. One day, Bette tells Hortense of her "sweetheart" Wenceslas.
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| Release date: | June 12, 1998 |
| Directed by: | Des McAnuff |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 108 Minutes |
| Producer: | Sarah Radclyffe |
| Editor: | Tariq Anwar, Barry Alexander Brown |
| Music by: | Simon Boswell |
| Cinematography: | Andrzej Sekula |
| Screenplay by: | Lynn Siefert, Susan Tarr |
| Genre: | Comedy |