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Director:
Writer:
Bruce Robinson (screenplay)
Release Date:
2 November 1984 (USA)
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Tagline:
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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NewsDesk:
(37 articles)
The Leigh dynasty
(From The Guardian - Film News. 17 December 2009, 3:15 PM, PST)
Cinematographers to Honor Chris Menges
(From The Wrap. 3 December 2009, 6:21 PM, PST)
(From The Guardian - Film News. 17 December 2009, 3:15 PM, PST)
Cinematographers to Honor Chris Menges
(From The Wrap. 3 December 2009, 6:21 PM, PST)
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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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Trivia:
The Coke factory in the movie was originally supposed to be a Pepsi factory, but Pepsi declined to be featured in the movie.
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Goofs:
Continuity: When listening to the news on the radio in the French consulate, a bottle of Champagne and a glass are standing on the piano. In the next cut, the bottle and the glass are gone. Another journalist then brings both items to the piano again.
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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:
Referenced in "Peep Show: Sistering (#3.4)" (2005)
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Soundtrack:
Imagine
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A must see movie...
The story about relationship and life, in decisive situations. And also a struggle towards guilts and torments.
Watching this movie, I'm thinking about how many sorrows and death brought by such horrifying ideology and minds. And how this things still happened to this moment.
One interesting plot, revealed how the west always want to tell the east what to do, and what they think best for them (which is in fact sometimes it's not). From the moment the military covered up their mistakes and their misjudgement about the country, to the day Sam Waterstone felt guilty about his demand for Dith Pran to stay with him and help his journalism work, while he also told Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor) to get his family off country.
And the pattern also still happens to this moment.
Imagine...