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Babel (2006) 7.5
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Metascore: 69/100
Reviews: 899 user | 285 critic | 38 from Metacritic.com Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families. Director:Alejandro González Iñárritu |
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4 interlocking stories all connected by a single gun all converge at the end and reveal a complex and tragic story of the lives of humanity around the world and how we truly aren't all that different. In Morocco, a troubled married couple are on vacation trying to work out their differences. Meanwhile, a Moroccan herder buys a rifle for his sons so they can keep the jackals away from his herd. A girl in Japan dealing with rejection, the death of her mother, the emotional distance of her father, her own self-consciousness, and a disability among many other issues, deals with modern life in the enormous metropolis of Tokyo, Japan. Then, on the opposite side of the world the married couple's Mexican nanny takes the couple's 2 children with her to her son's wedding in Mexico, only to come into trouble on the return trip. Combined, it provides a powerful story and an equally powerful looking glass into the lives of seemingly random people around the world and it shows just how connected we... Written by Mac
Plot Keywords:
american | mexican border | destiny | multiple perspectives | muslim |Taglines:
Pain is universal... But so is hope. See more »Genres:
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English | Arabic | Spanish | Japanese | Berber languages | French | Russian | Japanese Sign LanguageRelease Date:
10 November 2006 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Babel See more »Box Office
Budget:
$25,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£592,387 (UK) (19 January 2007)Gross:
$34,300,771 (USA) (23 March 2007)Company Credits
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Hassan: It's almost new. Three hundred cartridges. The guy who gave it to me said you can hit as far as three kilometers.
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By Earth Wind & Fire
Al McKay / Maurice White / Allee Willis (as Alle Willis)
Beechwood de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.
Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Mexico), S.A. de C.V.
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Brad Pitt gave up one of the starring roles in The Departed (2006) (a film he co-produced) in order to participate in this film, as he's a longtime fan of Alejandro González Iñárritu's films. See more »Goofs
After the wedding, Amelia, her nephew and the Jones children use the Tecate border crossing to reenter the USA. After fleeing, we are shown a sandy, wide desert where they wander. Actually, the Tecate border crossing is in the mountains, there is no such desert within a reasonable distance on the USA side. What is shown looks like an Arizona border crossing. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Hassan: It's almost new. Three hundred cartridges. The guy who gave it to me said you can hit as far as three kilometers.
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SeptemberBy Earth Wind & Fire
Al McKay / Maurice White / Allee Willis (as Alle Willis)
Beechwood de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.
Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Mexico), S.A. de C.V.
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I admire Gonzalez Inarritu's balls and his talent of course. He opens himself up for a barrage of criticism and ridicule but at the end his genius wins. I saw the film months ago and I still think about it. I haven't seen it again because the recollection is so powerful and I don't want to mess it up by seeing it again intentionally. The Mexican woman with the white kids in the desert has become part of my nightmares. What an enormous thing for a movie to accomplish. I'm giving it a 10 and not because I "like" the film so much but because I saw myself coming to the conclusion that the film is a masterpiece all on my own. It inspires respect. Christ! I can't believe I'm saying that but I am and I'm meaning every word. In a way it reminds me of Bunuel's "Viridiana" a film that I hated so much it has become one of the most important films of my life. Go figure. To be disturbed. I mean deeply disturbed is a strange experience and I suspect that it has to do with being confronted by the truth.