Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman stars in The Portrait of a Lady based off of Henry James' great novel of freedom and seduction. Isabel Archer (Kidman) is a young woman of daring independence and equally fierce desires. Her head-strong innocence is no match, however, for the manipulations of her duplicitous friend Madame Merle (Barbara Hershey) and the devious Gilbert Osmond (John Malkovich). Featuring a supporting cast including Sir John Geilgud, Shelley Winters, Christian Bale and Mary-Louise Parker, writer/director Jane Campion's (The Piano) vision is a lavish, richly layered epic of seduction, betrayal and hopeful triumph. - Marriage to domineering man saps 1800s woman's spirit.