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With: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen
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Written by: Christopher Hampton, Robert Schenkkan, based on the novel by Graham Greene
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Directed by: Phillip Noyce
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MPAA Rating: R for images of violence and some language
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Running Time: 101
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Date: 09/09/2002
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The Quiet American (2002)
The Greene Mile
By Jeffrey M. Anderson Buy The Quiet American on DVD. Michael Caine won the San Francisco Film Critics Circle award for his understated performance as Thomas Fowler, a British reporter stationed in 1950s Vietnam. The American of the title is Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser), who ostensibly wants to provide medical care for the locals but may have a darker agenda. Certainly he wants to steal Fowler's girl, the beautiful young Vietnamese woman Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen), whom Fowler can't marry. Director Phillip Noyce landed a beautiful one-two punch with this and Rabbit-Proof Fence, two political films with politics in the background and delicate human storytelling in the foreground. Based on Graham Greene's 1955 novel.
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