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List Price: $14.99Amazon.com's Price: $13.49 You Save: $1.50 (10%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936219760
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Miramax Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Miramax Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 29, 2003
Running Time: 101 minutes
Sales Rank: 20223
Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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Editorial Review:
Description:
The acclaimed performances of two-time Academy Award(R)-winner Michael Caine (Best Supporting Actor, THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, 1999; HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, 1986) and Brendan Fraser (THE MUMMY, GODS AND MONSTERS) power a stylish political thriller where love and war collide in Southeast Asia. Set in early 1950s Vietnam, a young American (Fraser) becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle when he falls for the beautiful mistress of a British journalist (Caine). As war is waged around them, these three only sink deeper into a world of drugs, passion, and betrayal where nothing is as it seems. Based on the classic novel by Graham Greene -- you'll find yourself riveted by the fascinating intricacies and ever-developing intrigue of this outstanding motion picture.
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The Quiet American proves that elegant and intelligent filmmaking can be emotionally powerful. Michael Caine plays Thomas Fowler, a British journalist in 1950s Vietnam with a lovely Vietnamese mistress named Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen) and a jaded view of the political strife teeming around him. He befriends a seemingly innocuous American named Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser), who falls in love with Phuong--and slowly, Pyle's real purpose in Vietnam becomes revealed. Fowler finds that, to hold on to the carefully balanced life he's created for himself, he must make choices he's long avoided. Caine and Fraser are both superb and give a human face to complicated politics; as a result, The Quiet American manages to be compelling as both history and a story about very specific people embroiled in a very personal conflict. An impressive film from director Philip Noyce (Rabbit-Proof Fence, Patriot Games). --Bret Fetzer
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If you love Graham Greene novels, and what literate person would not, this adaptation is well worth watching. Great soundtrack, and Michael Caine, as usual, nails it. There's just enough suspense and mystery about the quiet American, and the flashback structure works very well. Top notch.
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I guess the film does about as well as you can when trying to put a book on screen. The acting didn't so much bother me as the narrating; Greene's book tells you a lot about the characters that the film's narrator (Caine) tries to relay, but it's only cursory and awkward compared to the book.
Case in point: the scene where Pyle tracks Fowler down up north by going up the river alone. If I remember the book correctly, this scene and its build-up were quite good in terms of "internal ... Read More
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The Quiet American is a film based on the Graham Greene novel of the same name and his characters here have some shades of the characters in his novella-turned-screenplay The Third Man. In many ways The Quiet American is as true to Green's literary work as The Third Man is, and I would even say that it is as good as the The Third Man. Perhaps it is just that the quality of our present audience has diminished? This is the second film adaptation of Greene's The Quiet American. This version is as ... Read More
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Graham Greene is one of the most filmed authors ever. His books and stories have been made into more than fifty movies, television episodes and mini-series. This one is the best.
The Quiet American is a perfect blend of intelligent and atmospheric film-making. Parts of it are achingly beautiful. As so commonly with Greene, the themes are the complexity of life, the ambiguity of moral choices and the fallibility of ordinary people; in addition, he has targeted the destructive role of American ... Read More
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Grahame Greene's original story has been made into two movies, the first in 1958 starred Audie Murphy and was pro-America. The 2002 version starring Michael Caine is a thought-provoking story that all those interested in Indo China should see as it gives an unbiassed insight into the beginning of the USA's involvement in the war in Vietnam. Beautiful photography has evoked the Saigon of the 1950s by using other locations in Vietnam. The special features, including the anatomy of a scene, are well worth watching.
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