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- Tom Tykwer(screenplay)
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- Dave Eggers(novel)
- Tom Tykwer(screenplay)
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- Tom Tykwer(screenplay)
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- TriviaFilmed mostly in Morocco. Only some exterior shots were taken in Riyadh.
- GoofsThe first time Tom Hanks wakes up late in his hotel in KSA, there's a Muslim prayer call (Adhan) heard in the background. However, his bedside alarm clock shows it's after 9:00 am, and no Muslim prayers occur in that time.
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Alan: [in an email] Dear Dr. Hakem. I hope this message finds you well. Your skill made quick work of that cyst. So I want to thank you again. I've been feeling increasingly energized since the operation and I've already been able to transfer that energy to others successfully. The only catch is now I don't have anything to blame my problems on. That little growth explained everything, and now it's gone. I am sincerely grateful, though, I think. Alan Clay.
Zahra: [her response] Dear Mr. Clay, even though it went a little harder than I expected, it was a simple extraction. Usually the discovery that you're not dying of a malignant tumor leaves most people with their spirits high. But you are not most people, are you? Dr. Zahra Hakem.
Alan: Dear Dr. Hakem, actually, my spirits are very high indeed, maybe too high. I'm feeling a little dizzy. The cause is mysterious. But I have felt a strange new lump in my back. I'm no doctor, but it feels like a rubber glove. Is there a chance you left one? Sometimes people leave things like gloves with someone they like in hopes their retrieval will provide an excuse to see that someone again. Yours, Alan.
Zahra: Dear Alan, I actually might have left something. I'm thinking a sponge? Or maybe part of a snack I ate during the surgery. I think I need to see you again. Perhaps out of the hospital? We don't want to worry your insurers. Zahra.
- ConnectionsFeatured in OWV Updates: Multimedia Update (21/05/2016) (2016)
- SoundtracksOnce In A Lifetime
Performed by Talking Heads
Sung by Tom Hanks
(P) 1980 Sire Records Company
Courtesy of Warner Music Group Germany Holding Gmbh. A Warner Music Group Company
Words and Music by David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, Jerry Harrison and Brian Eno
(C) 1980 WB Music Corp. (ASCAP) and Index Music, Inc. (ASCAP), Universal Music MGB Limited
Mit Freundlicher Genehmigung
Courtesy of Neue Welt Musikverlag Gmbh & Co KG / A Warner Chappell Music Company & Musik-Edition Discoton Gmbh
I understand why critics at Rotten Tomatoes give it a 73% fresh rating: it is different and critics like that. Only 55% of the audience at RT enjoyed it because they were expecting something different, and audiences don't like that. As other reviewers have mentioned, the plot meanders and goes in odd directions. But that is part of the quirky attraction for me, at least. While the story ends a bit abruptly (too nicely/neatly?), Tom Hank's character is a sympathetic one that the audience willingly roots for.
- kcpenner
- Aug 15, 2018
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- 1 hour 38 minutes
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