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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John Curran
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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 meeting young, intelligent, shy and somewhat dull Dr. Walter Fane, whose forte is the study of infectious diseases, and the convenient marriage that she finds herself committed to. It is in this web of intrigue that they head for China, only after Walter discovers Kitty's infidelity with one dashing and witty diplomat Charlie Townsend. 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 these flightless lovebirds and with the hardships and tolerances more than any had ever anticipated. A visual delight amid the pain and suffering of a 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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Release Date:
19 January 2007 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$19,400,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$51,086, 24 December 2006Gross USA:
$8,060,487Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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Kitty Fane: Not particularly, no. Well, I mean yes, but we don't really have them around the house. Mother says, "Why purchase something you can grow for free?" Then, we don't really grow them either. It does silly really. To put all that effort into something that's just going to die.
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Performed by The Choir of the Beijing Takahashi Culture and Art Centre
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Edward Norton and Naomi Watts would later reunite onscreen in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). See more »Goofs
The river moves very slowly, indicating minimal slope. Yet the bamboo aqueduct, which is supposed to bring water down-river, bypassing the burial ground, has significant slope. See more »Quotes
Walter Fane: Do you like flowers?Kitty Fane: Not particularly, no. Well, I mean yes, but we don't really have them around the house. Mother says, "Why purchase something you can grow for free?" Then, we don't really grow them either. It does silly really. To put all that effort into something that's just going to die.
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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.