Release Date | 1988-12-16 |
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Runtime | 106 minutes |
Genres | Drama, Romance |
Stars | Philip Anglim, Alice Krige, Eric Stoltz, Alex Winter, Laura Dern |
Directors | Lewis John Carlino, Ivan Passer, Anne Edwards, Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus |
Authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley (née Godwin) and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs, and sex. It is a fictionalization of the summer that Lord Byron and the Shelleys, together with Lord Byron's ex-lover Claire Clairmont and his Doctor John Polidori, spent in the isolated Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva. It is there they devise a contest to adduce the best horror story to kill the dullness of summer. It is also there that one of the world's most famous books was given life—Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.