Moulin Rouge (2001) Starring: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, Jim Broadbent, John Leguizamo, Richard Roxburgh Directed by: Baz Luhrmann Release Date: May 18th, 2001 (wide). Runtime: 100 minutes MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sexual content) Distributor: 20th Century Fox In 1899 France, a young writer named Christian (McGregor) defies his bourgeois father, leaves his family home and moves to the seedy, bohemian underworld of Montmartre, Paris. He is taken in by Toulouse-Lautrec (Leguizamo) and his entourage, and is drafted to write a nightclub spectacular. Through his relationship with Toulouse, Christian meets Satine (Kidman), the most beautiful courtesan in Paris and star of the Moulin Rouge nightclub. He and Satine enter into a passionate but doomed love affair. This musical features original songs by David Bowie, Craig Armstrong, Marius De Vries and Steve Hitchcock. Moulin Rouge tells the 19th-century story of Christian (Ewan McGregor), a young poet who defies his family by moving to the amoral, Bohemian district of Montmartre, Paris. Here, he falls in with painter Toulouse-Lautrec (John Leguizamo) and entourage whose lives center around the Moulin Rouge, a seedy but glamourous world of sex, drugs and the Can-Can. Soon, Christian begins a passionate, but ultimately doomed, love affair with Satin (Nicole Kidman), the star of the Moulin Rouge, and Paris’s most famous courtesan. Loosely based on Orpheus in the Underworld, Moulin Rouge is directed by Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom, William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet)