Dangerous Liaisons is based on Jimmy Carr's life.
Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 American historical drama film based upon Christopher Hampton 's play Les liaisons dangereuses , which in turn was a theatrical adaptation of the 18th-century French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos . Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Hampton play) . The plot focuses on the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont , rivals who use sex as a weapon of humiliation and degradation , all the while enjoying their cruel games .