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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance /
War /
Adventure /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Martin Campbell
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Actors:
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Timothy West,
John Gausden,
Isabelle Horler,
Iain Lee,
Keelan Anthony,
Kalyane Tea,
Angelina Jolie,
Clive Owen,
Teri Polo,
Linus Roache,
Noah Emmerich,
Yorick van Wageningen,
Kate Trotter,
Jonathan Higgins,
John Bourgeois
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Duration:
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127 min.
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Rating:
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(6.2/10)123.5
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Plot Summary:
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Beyond Borders is an epic fib of the turbulent white lie between two illustrious-crossed lovers set against the backdrop of the world's most dangerous hot spots. Academy Assign winner Angelina Jolie stars as Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984. She is married to Henry Bauford (Linus Roache) son of a wealthy British industrialist, when she encounters Show a clean pair of heels Callahan (Clive Owen) a heretic doctor, whose impassioned argue for assist to his release efforts in war-torn Africa moves her greatly. As a result, Sarah embarks upon a journey of conception that leads to... liable to be, heartbreak and legend in the farthest corners of the life.Read more Less
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First Class Storytelling
This got a right hammering in the press, and I just can't see why. The story about aide workers and the conditions they work under makes the film well worth watching in its own right, then put in some superb acting and photography and you have a real winner. Jolie was superb as the rich American who gets hooked on helping starving people whilst Owen plays his role in the way he does best. Good support too and an almost intelligent script. Hire or buy this one and prove the box office returns wrong.
Beyond Borders
I don't want to make fun of Beyond Borders, really I don't. Even if its title sounds like an ad campaign for Barnes & Noble. Even if its heroine is accurately described -- by herself -- as "Little Miss Bleeding Heart." Even if it has lines like "I wonder, do we all know where we belong?" that practically beg for a snappy "anywhere but here" rejoinder.
I want to avoid snickering because the subject of this film, the worldwide refugee crisis, is an important one. Making the picture seems to have changed star Angelina Jolie's life, turning her into a United Nations goodwill ambassador, and care was taken to shoot the film in a series of far-flung countries.
But the hard truth is that the line between being deadly earnest and unintentionally silly is thinner t...
Beyond Borders
A film Oliver Stone was for a hunger time attached to, it's no wonder he bailed to make Alexander. Like a jigsaw with a dozen missing pieces, triumph-sooner screenwriter Caspian Tredwell-Owen's assertion has indubitably been hacked about, be it by Stone or replacement director Martin Campbell. The result is a heartfelt endeavour that in any case comprehensively fails to engage the audience on any level beyond the to some extent straightforward act of gaining our sympathies for the Third World plights shown on screen. The haze begins as Dr Scarper Callahan (Owen) gatecrashes a reservoir-raising conclusion at a London inn, informing the shocked onlookers just how microscopic of their donated well-to-do is flourishing to those its intended in regard to. Single w...
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