Moulin Rouge! (2001)

Moulin Rouge! rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.6/10· 313K votes

Rotten Tomatoes75%

Metacritic66%

TMDb7.53/10· 5K votes

With 75% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.6/10 on IMDb and 66/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.

About Moulin Rouge!

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.

Cast of Moulin Rouge!

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  Ewan McGregor

  as Christian

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  Nicole Kidman

  as Satine

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  John Leguizamo

  as Toulouse-Lautrec

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  Jim Broadbent

  as Harold Zidler

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  Richard Roxburgh

  as The Duke

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  Garry McDonald

  as The Doctor

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  Jacek Koman

  as The Unconscious Argentinean

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  Matthew Whittet

  as Satie

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  Kerry Walker

  as Marie

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  Caroline O'Connor

  as Nini Legs in the Air

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  Christine Anu

  as Arabia

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  Natalie Mendoza

  as China Doll

Moulin Rouge! facts

Budget

$52.5M

Box office

$179.2M

Our take on Moulin Rouge!

Baz Luhrmann's 2001 drama, music and romance stages a celebration of love and creative inspiration inside the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, plunged into the heady world of the Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star. Luhrmann turns it into a dizzying, maximalist spectacle of color, movement and anachronistic song, where feeling always overrides restraint. It's romantic, theatrical and unapologetically excessive. Best for viewers who embrace bold, stylized musicals and stories where love and art collide at full volume; those who prefer subtlety may find its intensity relentless, but it commits completely.