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Trailer UK Trailer. First Trailer. Clip Video Photos Top cast Edit. Michael Douglas Liberace as Liberace. Eric Zuckerman Lou as Lou.

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Storyline Edit. Scott Thorson , a young bisexual man raised in foster homes, is introduced to flamboyant entertainment giant Liberace and quickly finds himself in a romantic relationship with the legendary pianist. Swaddled in wealth and excess, Scott and Liberace have a long affair, one that Scott eventually begins to find suffocating.

Kept away from the outside world by his flashily effeminate yet deeply closeted partner, and submitting to extreme makeovers and even plastic surgery at the behest of his lover, Scott eventually rebels. When Liberace finds himself a new lover, Scott is tossed onto the street. He then seeks legal redress for what he feels he has lost.

But throughout, the bond between the young man and the star never completely tears. Biography Drama Music Romance.

Did you know Edit. Trivia Robin Williams was originally set to play Liberace. Goofs At the funeral mass at the film's end, the congregation's response to the priest's opening liturgical greeting "The Lord be with You" is..

This is a well-known change made about 20 years after the funeral - which took place in , when the liturgical response would still have been "And also with you.