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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Thriller /
Mystery /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Sydney Pollack
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Actors:
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Clyde Kusatsu,
Eric Keenleyside,
Yvan Attal,
Hugo Speer,
Curtiss Cook,
Earl Cameron,
Byron Utley,
Maz Jobrani,
Yusuf Gatewood,
Nicole Kidman,
Sean Penn,
Catherine Keener,
Jesper Christensen,
George Harris,
Michael Wright
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Duration:
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128 min.
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Rating:
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(6.5/10)147
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Plot Summary:
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An African-born United Nations interpreter (Nicole Kidman) overhears a plan to assassinate an African head of state scheduled to address the U.N. General Assembly. She also becomes a objective of the assassination. In classification to stop the show, she must convince a stalwart Secret Service delegate (Sean Penn) that she is weighty the truth. He, conceding that, believes she's exposed and hiding something.
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Interpreter THIS (3.5 stars)
Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn are both politically astute, liberal and upright, and there is no doubt that Penn supports the United Nations (Penn recently visited Baghdad and took out a full-page advert in the Washington Post, in which he criticised President George Bush for his war plans). Filmed in the United Nations New York city headquarters, the feature gives us more than just what Nicole Kidman calls, 'extra credibility'. With lines like, 'words are slower than bullet, but last longer', or such such -- it would be very hard to convince me that this isn't a sponsor project of the United Nations. 'Armageddon' for instance, was a sponsor project of NASA (it's true - look it up on the internet). The film crew there had complete access to the NASA facilities,...
Interpreter, The
Nicole Kidman is the titular interpreter in Sydney Pollack's convoluted political thriller set in the United Nations building in New York
From her nasal Southern twang in Cold Mountain to the dodgy Russian lisp she curled her lips around in Birthday Girl, Nicole Kidman has always had a problem with accents. In The Interpreter she comes up with an unlikely sounding drawl - part African French and Spanish according to the script - to play Silvia Broome, an interpreter at the United Nations headquarters in New York, who overhears a plot to assassinate an African head of state.
Fortunately for Kidman, her accent isn't the only thing that fails to convince in Sydney Pollack's dull throwback to paranoid thrillers like his own, far superior, <...
Quality in any language
I saw this at the cinema, and to be honest, I'm glad I gave what looked like a conventional thriller a chance on the big screen. Handled with enormous panache by old hand Sydney Pollack, this is big-heated Hollywood professionalism at its very best.
Admittedly, I could watch Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman make toast, but they invest their roles with genuine commitment, and the adorable Catherine Keener provides admirable support. This is an extremely old-fashioned Hitchcock-with-a-heart style movie, with gleaming cinematography, two or three masterful suspense sequences, and even an idea rattling around for good measure. It's not a classic, but either as a night out or a night it, it's one to savour for the sheer pleasure of seeing top talent giving a decent thriller the at...
Interpreter, The
Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) is a translator at United Nations HQ in New York. One evening, shes working late and...
Interpreter, The
The best thriller of the year so far - smart and tense... gripping.
Interpreter, The
A great process thriller... if you liked the Bourne movies, you'll love this.
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