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'Tulip Fever': A Lush Portrait Of A Florid Affair

Based on Deborah Moggach's best-selling 1999 novel, this slightly overstuffed period romance features a clever screenplay by Moggach and playwright Tom Stoppard.
Artist Jan Van Loos (Dane DeHaan) begins an affair with Sophia Sandvoort (Alicia Vikander) in <em>Tulip Fever.</em>

There's a film hitting theaters this weekend you may not have heard anything about. It's called Tulip Fever, a period romantic thriller starring Alicia Vikander, Christoph Waltz, Judi Dench and Dane DeHaan, with a screenplay by Tom Stoppard.

The reason you haven't heard much in the way of advanceTulip Fever

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