A British medical doctor fights a cholera epidemic in a small Chinese village, while being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
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Cast
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Catherine An | ... | Hostess |
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Bin Li | ... | Te-Ming |
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Bin Wu | ... | Student 1 |
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Alan David | ... | Mr. Garstin |
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Marie-Laure Descoureaux | ... | Sister St. Joseph |
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Lorraine Laurence | ... | Sister Maryse |
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Gwing-Gai Lee | ... | Angry Chinese Man (as Johnny Lee) |
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Li Feng | ... | Sung Ching |
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Gesang Meiduo | ... | Amah |
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Yin Qing | ... | Student 2 |
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Ian Renwick | ... | Geoffrey Denison (as Ian Rennick) |
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This love story has Kitty (Naomi Watts) meeting young, intelligent, shy and somewhat dull Dr. Walter Fane (Edward Norton), whose forte is the study of infectious diseases, and the convenient marriage to which she finds herself committed. It is in this web of intrigue that they head for China, only after Walter discovers Kitty's infidelity with the dashing and witty diplomat Charlie Townsend (Liev Schreiber). So much as to hide her from herself and to help thwart a cholera outbreak, this is a marriage more than on the rocks. This is a cold, indifferent, and loveless partnership in a vast unknown and deadly environment that will test both of these flightless lovebirds and with the hardships and tolerances more than any had ever anticipated. A visual delight amidst the pain and suffering of dying people and failing marriage. Will a cure be found for both, before it's too late? Written by Cinema_Fan
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Rated PG-13 for some mature sexual situations, partial nudity, disturbing images and brief drug content | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Release Date:
19 January 2007 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Budget:
$19,400,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$51,086, 24 December 2006Gross USA:
$8,060,487Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$26,522,838Company Credits
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Walter Fane: Are you looking to kill yourself?
[Kitty eats the vegetables with a contemptous smirk. Walter then serves himself and eats his in the same manner]
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Written by Erik Satie
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In the scene where Walter is telling Kitty he wants to divorce her, Kitty's hair changes between shots, moving from over her left cheek to further back and then forward again repeatedly. See more »Quotes
[Kitty serves herself a helping of the uncooked vegetables from the local cholera-infected crop]Walter Fane: Are you looking to kill yourself?
[Kitty eats the vegetables with a contemptous smirk. Walter then serves himself and eats his in the same manner]
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Featured in At the Movies: The Painted Veil/Miss Potter/Perfume: The Story of a Murderer/Notes on a Scandal/The Curse of the Golden Flower/Pan's Labyrinth (2007) See more »Soundtracks
Gnossienne No. 1Written by Erik Satie
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Naomi Watts is every bit as good as Garbo was in the 1934 version, and Ed Norton is outstanding. Great supporting cast as well - Diana Rigg is almost unrecognizable as a Mother Superior, and Liev Schreiber is, as always, terrific as a slimy lowlife. Based on one of Somerset Maugham's best stories, this is a movie that will satisfy anyone looking for an old-fashioned, romantic drama about love lost and love earned. The social quandary of British women after the first World War, which created a generation of unwilling spinsters, is taken as seriously by the filmmakers as the emergence of a new China standing up to its Colonial oppressors. Watts' character's journey from spoiled, selfish Daddy's girl in 1920's fun-loving London to a mature woman in a deprived, cholera-infested third-world country is harrowing.