The Quiet American

UPC: 786936219760

Format: DVDMultiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC

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The Quiet American proves that elegant and intelligent filmmaking can be emotionally powerful. Michael Caine plays Thomas Fowler, a British journalist in 1950s Vietnam with a lovely Vietnamese mistress named Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen) and a jaded view of the political strife teeming around him. He befriends a seemingly innocuous American named Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser), who falls in love with Phuong--and slowly, Pyle's real purpose in Vietnam becomes revealed. Fowler finds that, to hold on to the carefully balanced life he's created for himself, he must make choices he's long avoided. Caine and Fraser are both superb and give a human face to complicated politics; as a result, The Quiet…

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List Price: $14.99
Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment
Actors: Michael Caine Brendan Fraser Do Thi Hai Yen Rade Serbedzija Tzi Ma
Size: 7.7000" x 5.5000"
Weight: 0.2000 lbs.
Language: English, English