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General Information
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Genre: Drama, Thriller and Adaptation |
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Running Time: 2 hrs. 9 min. |
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Release Date: August 31st, 2005 (wide) |
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MPAA Rating:
R for for language, some violent images, and sexual content/nudity.
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Distributor:
Focus Features
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In a remote
area of Northern Kenya, the region's most dedicated activist, the
brilliant and passionate Tessa Quayle, has been found brutally
murdered. Tessa's traveling companion, a local doctor, appears to
have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion.
Sandy Woodrow, Sir Bernard Pellegrin, and the other members of the
British High Commission assume that Tessa's widower, their
mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave
the matter to their discretion. They could not be more wrong. This
career diplomat's equilibrium has been exploded by the loss of the
woman he was deeply devoted to. They were opposites whose attraction
sustained a marriage, the memories of which now spur Justin to take
decisive action for the first time in his life and diplomatic
career. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his wife's
infidelities, Justin surprises himself by plunging headlong into a
dangerous odyssey. Determined to clear his wife's name and
"finish what she started," Justin embarks on a crash
course to learn about the pharmaceutical industry, whose crimes
Tessa was on the verge of uncovering, and journeys across two
continents in search of the truth. His eyes are soon opened to a
vast conspiracy at once deadly and commonplace, one that has claimed
innocent lives--and is about to put his own at risk.
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