While attending a fundraising gala sarah a naive married american socialite living in england witnesses a fiery plea delivered by dr nick callahan. His plea made on behalf og impoverished african children under his care turns her life upside down. She abandons her life to work alongside him. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/03/2006 Starring: Angelina Jolie Clive Owen Run time: 126 minutes Rating: R Director: Martin Campbell
Romantic adventure, marital crisis, and the tragedy of global hunger are combined with mixed but respectable results in Beyond Borders, starring Angelina Jolie in a role that reflects her off-screen efforts as a United Nations goodwill ambassador. Jolie plays a naive American socialite, unhappily married and living in London, whose life is revolutionized when a passionate doctor (Clive Owen, replacing original costar Kevin Costner) draws her into the cause of humanitarian aid in the world's most dangerous political hot-spots including Ethiopia, Cambodia (where Jolie adopted her first child), and Chechnya in the 1980s and '90s. Directed by Martin (Goldeneye) Campbell, who replaced Oliver Stone during troubled pre-production, this well-meaning film suffers from schizophrenic priorities: Is it a globetrotting love story? An impassioned political exposé? Powerful scenes and fine performances can't entirely offset the film's identity crisis, and the ending strives for a quality of martyrdom that it doesn't really earn. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
DVD Beyond Borders:
The movie arrived promptly and in excellent condition.I was unaware that there would be no cover for it, that was a bit disappointing.
another way of love story:
No measure of how the humen being when fall 4 a reason to live by & be belonged to other.
Great Movie!:
This movie never got that much attention. It stars Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen before he got famous! The story is absolutely moving and real, these things happen people, every day, all over the globe. One of the few movies that I own and I own way too many, that I have watched over and over! Great film, amazing acting!
Solid Effort; Years of Living Dangerously:
I hate bleeding-heart melodramas set in third-world countries starring Hollywood beauty-queens, BUT this one has a lot going for it. Amazingly, the dialog is good and the set-up works. The doctor has all the same objections to the do-gooders that any cynic might have, so one feels relieved of the duty of finding fault with the rich, guilt-ridden Jolie character who heads off to Africa with a truck-load of goodies. It is a brutal bit of realistic footage - those starving babies aren't actors! The film has a... more info
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