A speculative account of the life of Griet, a 16-year-old girl who appears in Johannes Vermeer's painting of the same title. Set in 17th century Holland, Griet is employed by Vermeer as a housemaid to care for his six children, his jealous pregnant wife and his uncommunicative mother-in-law. Tensions arise when Vermeer's wife suspects intimacy between her husband and the girl--and then climax, when the wife discovers that Griet borrowed her precious pearl earrings to sit for the now famous portrait.
Production Archer Street Productions [gb]; Delux Productions [lu]; Film Fund Luxembourg [lu]; Pathé Pictures International [gb]; UK Film Council [gb]; Wild Bear Films;
Cast Names Colin Firth; Scarlett Johansson; Tom Wilkinson; Judy Parfitt; Cillian Murphy; Essie Davis; Joanna Scanlan; Alakina Mann; Chris McHallem; Gabrielle Reidy; Rollo Weeks; Anna Popplewell; Anaïs Nepper; Melanie Meyfroid; Nathan Nepper; Lola Carpenter; Charlotte Carpenter; Olivia Chauveau; Geoff Bell; Virginie Colin; Sarah Drews; Christelle Bulckaen; John McEnery; Gintare Parulyte; Claire Johnston; Marc Maes; Robert Sibenaler; Dustin James; Joe Reavis; Martin Serene; Chris (XI) Kelly; Leslie Woodhall;
Box Office USD 11,634,362
Release Date 2003-08-31 (Telluride Film Festival) 2003-10-12 (Austin Film Festival) 2003-10-17 (Hollywood Film Festival) 2003-10-31 (Hawaii Film Festival) 2003-12-12 (Los Angeles, California) 2003-12-12 (New York City, New York) 2003-12-26 (Chicago, Illinois) 2003-12-26 (San Francisco, California) 2004-01-09
Genres Biography; Drama; Romance;
MPAA Rating [?] Rated PG-13 for some sexual content.