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The Da Vinci Code
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PG13,2hrs 28min
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May 19, 2006
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Sony Pictures
Synopsis: Dan Brown's controversial best-selling novel about a powerful secret that's been kept under wraps for thousands of years comes to the screen in this suspense thriller from director Ron Howard. The stately silence of Paris' Louvre museum is broken when one of the gallery's leading curators is found dead on the grounds, with strange symbols carved into his body and left around the spot where he died. Hoping to learn the significance of the symbols, police bring in Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), a gifted ... Full Synopsis
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By John Hartl, Film critic, MSNBC
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"... so slavishly faithful to [novelist Dan] Brown's plot twists that it's tense with effort. A story that took 454 pages to tell simply cannot be telescoped into two and a half hours." Full Review
Cammila Albertson
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A book that should have been a movie in the first place, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code was the best seller of the decade when a film adaptation hit screens in 2006. The premise, whether or not you've read ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Robert Langdon
Sophie Neveu
Sir Leigh Teabing, Sir Teabing
Bishop Aringarosa, Bishop Arigarosa
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