Beautiful child bride Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst) is married off to the future king of France, Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman). Her new life at the Palace of Versailles dealing with all the new rules of conduct and social obligations bore her to death. Her marriage seems just as lifeless and dull. She decides to rile things up when the sudden death of Louis’s father makes her the new Queen. France’s new rule under the young couple begins a long period of extravagance by Marie Antoinette. She lives for her obscenely wild parties, endless shopping sprees, and endless consumption of food. Her reckless behavior seen by member of the French court as unbecoming a queen eventually will lead to her own undoing.