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Babel

  • 20062006
  • RR
  • 2h 23m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
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Babel (2006)
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  • Drama
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
301K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
3,143
1,382
  • Director
    • Alejandro G. Iñárritu
  • Writers
    • Guillermo Arriaga(idea)
    • Alejandro G. Iñárritu(idea)
  • Stars
    • Brad Pitt
    • Cate Blanchett
    • Gael García Bernal
Top credits
  • Director
    • Alejandro G. Iñárritu
  • Writers
    • Guillermo Arriaga(idea)
    • Alejandro G. Iñárritu(idea)
  • Stars
    • Brad Pitt
    • Cate Blanchett
    • Gael García Bernal
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 991User reviews
    • 259Critic reviews
    • 69Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 43 wins & 136 nominations total

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    Trailer 2:32
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    'Babel' | Anniversary Mashup
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    Clip 0:39
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    Clip 1:06
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    Behind the Scenes of Babel
    Featurette 12:00
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    Photos215

    Adriana Barraza, Elle Fanning, and Nathan Gamble in Babel (2006)
    Cate Blanchett in Babel (2006)
    Babel (2006)
    Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett in Babel (2006)
    Adriana Barraza in Babel (2006)
    Rinko Kikuchi in Babel (2006)
    Brad Pitt in Babel (2006)
    Gael García Bernal in Babel (2006)
    Rinko Kikuchi in Babel (2006)
    Rinko Kikuchi in Babel (2006)
    Adriana Barraza, Elle Fanning, and Nathan Gamble in Babel (2006)
    Brad Pitt in Babel (2006)

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    Brad Pitt
    Brad Pitt
    • Richardas Richard
    Cate Blanchett
    Cate Blanchett
    • Susanas Susan
    Gael García Bernal
    Gael García Bernal
    • Santiagoas Santiago
    Mohamed Akhzam
    • Anwaras Anwar
    Peter Wight
    Peter Wight
    • Tomas Tom
    Harriet Walter
    Harriet Walter
    • Lillyas Lilly
    Trevor Martin
    • Douglasas Douglas
    Matyelok Gibbs
    • Elyseas Elyse
    Georges Bousquet
    • Robertas Robert
    Claudine Acs
    • Janeas Jane
    André Oumansky
    André Oumansky
    • Walteras Walter
    Michael Maloney
    Michael Maloney
    • Jamesas James
    Dermot Crowley
    Dermot Crowley
    • Barthas Barth
    Wendy Nottingham
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    • Touristas Tourist
    Linda Broughton
    • Touristas Tourist
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    • Touristas Tourist
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    • Touristas Tourist
    • Director
      • Alejandro G. Iñárritu
    • Writers
      • Guillermo Arriaga(idea)
      • Alejandro G. Iñárritu(idea)
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    • Trivia
      The scene where Chieko (Rinko Kikuchi) and her father are in the car together was shot without filming permission from the city due to slow Japanese bureaucratic procedures. The crew created "man-made" busy traffic, and began shooting the scene. Later the police started chasing them while still shooting the scene.
    • 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.
    • Quotes

      Mike Jones: My mom said Mexico is dangerous.

      Santiago: [in Spanish] Yes, it's full of Mexicans.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Babel/Catch a Fire/Running with Scissors/Death of a President/The Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing (2006)
    • Soundtracks
      Para Que Regreses
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    User reviews991

    Review
    Top review
    8/10
    A coherent, impressive, well-made, insightful piece of work
    "Babel" centers on several groups of people in 4 countries that are all connected by one freak accident… Alejandro González Iñárritu takes us from North Africa to North America to Asia… His film exposes four unconnected story lines that are eventually divulged to be inextricably linked to one another…

    The first involves an isolated family of goat herders who live in the High Plateaus of the Moroccan desert where two young boys are testing a rifle's range handed by their father to protect their goats from jackals...

    The second concerns a Middle-class American couple on a bus tour of Morocco trying to save together their damaged marriage…

    Meanwhile, in the US, there is grave danger for an undocumented immigrant—a Mexican nanny as she tries to return to United States after she wrongfully decides to take her two blonde-haired young charges to her son's wedding across the Mexican border, despite her employers' sudden change of plans, that needs that she remains with them and miss the joyful occasion…

    And on the opposite side of the world, we follow, in Tokyo, an alienated, confused deaf and mute teenage student, recovering from her mother's suicide, who eases her feelings of depression and loneliness by trying to win the friendship or attention of every man or adolescent who crosses her path… She flirts with sexual exhibitionism to attract the attention of her distant and uncommunicative father…

    "Babel" tries to make a point and the point is that when people can't or won't communicate, unpredictable paths can lead to tragic consequences… It also tries to leave a message of how a 'shooting' from a simple 'gift' can set off a chain reaction of tragic events in three continents and four countries over which the different characters have exceedingly uncomfortable human emotion…

    Out of the entire cast, it is only Rinko Kikuchi as Chieko who steals the movie especially when she transmits to her friends her mad decision of sexual aggressiveness, saying to all: "Now they're going to meet the real hairy monster." This scene remembered me, in some way, Sharon Stone uncrossing legs in "Basic Instinct."
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 10, 2006 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • Mexico
      • France
    • Official sites
      • Vidio (Indonesia)
      • West Video (Russia)
    • Languages
      • English
      • Arabic
      • Spanish
      • Japanese
      • Berber languages
      • French
      • Russian
      • Japanese Sign Language
    • Also known as
      • Tháp Babel
    • Filming locations
      • Ouarzazate, Morocco
    • Production companies
      • Paramount Pictures
      • Paramount Vantage
      • Anonymous Content
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $25,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $34,302,837
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $389,351
      • Oct 29, 2006
    • Gross worldwide
      • $135,330,182
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 23 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • DTS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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