Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire - DVD.

Starring: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas, and Christian Slater.

OVERVIEW: Acclaimed director Neil Jordan adapts Anne Rice's bestseller for the screen with sumptuous visuals, lavish sets, and dark intensity, earning Academy Award nominations in 1995 for its art direction and ingenious music score by Elliot Goldenthal. As the charismatic but supremely evil vampire Lestat, Tom Cruise perceptively conveys the pain and chronic melancholy of one cursed with immortal bloodlust. Brad Pitt plays Louis, who is lured by Lestat into the immortality of the damned. Kirsten Dunst costars as the third member of their vampire family; Antonio Banderas plays the leader of the Parisian vampires; and Christian Slater is the reporter who interviews Louis.