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Overall Rank: 7144
Average Rating: 2.7/4
# of Ratings: 11
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/2003
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guy Jenkin
Actors: Jessica Alba, Brenda Blethyn, Hugh Dancy, Bob Hoskins, Emily Mortimer, Christopher Ling Lee Ian
Plot: An eager young Englishman is dispatched to Sarawak to become part of the British colonial government, encounters some unorthodox local traditions, and finds himself faced with tough decisions of the heart involving the beautiful young Selima, the unwitting object of his affections. -- JC
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Indyfreak - wrote on 09/30/2018
Hugh Dancy and Jessica Alba play an interracial couple in 1930s Southeast Asia. It’s a more sensual and melodramatic version of the older Merchant-Ivory epics. It’s beautifully filmed and the cast is great. Jessica Alba is surprisingly good as the “Dorothy Lamour” standin. Unfortunately the story does lose its earnest charm in favor of cliched theatrics halfway through.
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