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Overview

User Rating:
6.7/10   732 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Cathy Rabin (screenplay)
Dan Verete (2001 film "Asphalt Zahov")
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Release Date:
16 May 2008 (USA) more
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Passion has its price.
Plot:
A English spice baron settles in South India during the waning years of the Raj. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
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(9 articles)
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Cast

  (Credited cast)

Linus Roache ... Henry Moores
Rahul Bose ... T. K. Neelan
Nandita Das ... Sajani

Jennifer Ehle ... Laura Moores
Leopold Benedict ... Peter Moores
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dr. Ambikathmajan ... T.K.'s Headmaster
Indrajith ... Manas
Lakshmi Krishnamurthy ... T.K.'s mom
Lal ... Rajat (as Lal Paul)
John Standing ... Charles Humphries
Thilakan ... T.K.'s Father
Ejji K. Umamahesh ... Inspector Sampath
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Also Known As:
Road to the Sky (UK) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for violent content and a scene of sexuality.
Runtime:
98 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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USA:PG-13 | Canada:14A (Manitoba) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Ontario) | UK:12 | Australia:M | Finland:K-13
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10 out of 25 people found the following comment useful.
Dull and Derivative, 1 August 2008
4/10
Author: Four_Hundredth_Blow from Exeter, England

This movie fails to offer anything new to a genre that has traditionally shown the cross cultural love story underpinned by the politics mid 20th century / pre-WWII India, where the British and their modern ways are bad and the primitive but honest and true Indians are good. Surely such clichéd depictions of the British are rather passé now.

Apart from the drama that fuels the second part of the movie the narrative is predictable, the acting is pedestrian and two-dimensional, and the directing obvious and unimaginative.

The story really needed to be fleshed out and would certainly have benefited from another half an hour of screen time to give the characters and narrative more depth and give the viewer something to feel some investment in.

All in all, rather uninspiring. Oh and Linus Roache just cannot do tragedy - going cross-eyed with emotional pain just doesn't work for me!

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