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Overview
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Writer:
Bruce Robinson (screenplay)
Release Date:
2 November 1984 (USA)
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He was a reporter for the New York Times whose coverage of the Cambodian War would win him a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. But the friend who made it possible was half the world away with his life in great danger... This is the story of war and friendship, the anguish of a country and of one man's will to live. more
Plot:
A photographer is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody "Year Zero" cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million "undesirable" civilians. full summary | full synopsis
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Cambodia
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New York Times
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Khmer Rouge
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New York
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Airport
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Awards:
Won 3 Oscars.
Another 23 wins
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18 nominations
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(33 articles)
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Joffe's best work to date
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Sam Waterston | ... | Sydney Schanberg |
 | Haing S. Ngor | ... | Dith Pran (as Dr. Haing S Ngor) |
 | John Malkovich | ... | Alan 'Al' Rockoff |
 | Julian Sands | ... | John Swain |
 | Craig T. Nelson | ... | Major Reeves |
 | Spalding Gray | ... | U.S. Consul |
| Bill Paterson | ... | Dr. MacEntire |
| Athol Fugard | ... | Dr. Sundesval |
| Graham Kennedy | ... | Dougal |
| Katherine Krapum Chey | ... | Ser Moeum |
| Oliver Pierpaoli | ... | Titony |
| Edward Entero Chey | ... | Sarun |
| Tom Bird | ... | U.S. Military Advisor |
| Monirak Sisowath | ... | Phat - Khmer Rouge Leader |
| Lambool Dtangpaibool | ... | Phat's Son |
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Runtime:
141 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:16 |
Australia:M |
South Korea:15 (DVD rating) |
Argentina:18 |
Chile:18 |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:15 |
South Korea:15 |
Sweden:15 |
USA:R |
West Germany:16 |
Netherlands:12 |
Netherlands:16 (DVD rating) |
Singapore:PG |
Portugal:M/16 |
UK:15
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At the Oscar's, when Haing S. Ngor won the Oscar for best supporting actor, he walked onto the stage with his 15-year-old niece. Upon walking up to the stage, John Malkovich jokingly shouted something in Cambodian to him which shocked his niece and made Haing Ngor laugh. He shouted, "The award's mine, asshole!" In Haing Ngor's autobiography, he describes John Malkovich's keen interest in learning Cambodian swear words.
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Continuity: During the evacuation of the U.S. embassy, a soldier is taking down the U.S. flag and climbs back into the building of the embassy, but he forgets his assault rifle.
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Sydney Schanberg: Cambodia. To many westerners it seemed a paradise. Another world, a secret world. But the war in neighboring Vietnam burst it's borders, and the fighting soon spread to neutral Cambodia. In 1973 I went to cover this side-show struggle as a foreign correspondent of the New York Times...
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Sydney Schanberg: Cambodia. To many westerners it seemed a paradise. Another world, a secret world. But the war in neighboring Vietnam burst it's borders, and the fighting soon spread to neutral Cambodia. In 1973 I went to cover this side-show struggle as a foreign correspondent of the New York Times...
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Movie Connections:
Featured in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies (2006) (TV)
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Nessun dorma
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Based on the Khmer Rouge revolution in Cambodia, this is an excellent tale of hardship and friendship. Basically director Roland Joffe` did an wonderful job in exposing the detailed facts so simply in the film that you believe that you are in that time in person. The two actors, Sam Waterson and Haing Ngor both displayed godlike pieces of acting. It's unfortunate Waterson couldn't join Ngor in Academy Awards. In addition, the director's credit is to highlight both the characters' points of view. That's why the movie became so interesting to watch. John Malkovich brought out a fine performance as a photographer.
In the course of the story of adventures of the two men, the film also has vivid descriptions of the public life during the war. Several detailed scenes of war violence are presented here so indifferently that you are bound to be convinced about its historical accuracy. Here we find the magical cinematography of Chris Menges. Again, during the time of Dith Pran's suffering, it never seemed that the director is showing too much.
One of the most important, and my favorite, aspects of the film is its ending. You cannot imagine of a better alternative of this happiest ending possible in a war drama. And with the fantastic use of Lennon's "imagine", it has got to an enormous height of perfection. 5/5.