Bram Stoker's Dracula

Horror, Romance

Gary Oldman	Prince Vlad Dracula
Winona Ryder	Mina Murray/Elisabeta
Anthony Hopkins	Prof Abraham Van Helsing
Keanu Reeves	Jonathan Harker
Richard E. Grant	Dr. Jack Seward
Bill Campbell	Quincey P. Morris
Cary Elwes	Lord Arthur Holmwood
Sadie Frost	Lucy Westenra
Tom Waits	R.M. Renfield
Octavian Cadia	Deacon

Director	Francis Ford Coppola
Producer	Charles Mulvehill; Michael Apted
Writer	Bram Stoker; James V. Hart
Cinematography	Michael Ballhaus
Musician	Wojciech Kilar

Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula is a feverishly inventive movie that often overwhelms its own narrative flow, yet proves irresistible to watch. Coppola's baroque, operatic set design, costumes, and cinematography look as lavish as they did on the film's first release. The director's grab-bag of visual effects are still bold and unabashed, if often over-the-top, and the actors still appear caught up in a certain hysterical pitch that feels a little forced but can be a lot of fun to watch. Gary Oldman's imaginative performance as the titular vampire carries the weight of Coppola's vision of Count Dracula as a tragic-romantic hero with Christ-like overtones. Keanu Reeves still looks a little lost in the pivotal role of Jonathan Harker, the London clerk who finds himself a prisoner in a Transylvanian castle while a 400-year-old vampire makes a play for his fiancée back home (Winona Ryder). Anthony Hopkins is fearless as a daft Von Helsing, and Sadie Frost is very good as the doomed Lucy. --Tom Keogh