Nicole Kidman: A Kind of Life

by James L. Dickerson

  Grace of Monaco (2014)

  CAST

  Nicole Kidman

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Tim Roth

  Parker Posey

  Paz Vega

  Frank Langella

  Derek Jacobi

  Geraldine Somerville

  Robert Lindsay

  Director: Olivier Dahan

  Writer: Arash Amel

  The story of Hollywood actress Grace Kelley’s crisis of identity during a political dispute between Monoco and France’s Charles De Gaulle, when the French leader went to the brink of ordering an invasion of Monaco.

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