Directed by:
Tom TykwerScreenplay:
Tom TykwerCinematography:
Frank GriebeCast:
Tom Hanks, Sarita Choudhury, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Tracey Fairaway, Tom Skerritt, Megan Maczko, Ben Whishaw, Michael Baral, Khalid Laith, Amira El Sayed (more)VOD (1)
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Tom Hanks delivers one of his most engaging performances as Alan Clay, a recently divorced American businessman who is sent overseas to pitch a state-of-the-art holographic teleconferencing system to the king. Alan tries to navigate the country's unique customs and finds himself thrust into a series of wonderful misadventures. (Entertainment One)
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There's more than one clue that the overall result was cut till it smoked, so the film doesn't reveal what it is until the very end, which is its big saving grace, because it's nothing more than a therapeutic monologue by a middle-aged man who finds a wife, a job, and thus a zest for life. In short, like something out of a magazine. But until then, thankfully the film (perhaps unintentionally) pretty much masks what it's about, still acting as exposition most of the time and involving us with more or less unrelated episodes that have momentum, wit, and are pretty well shot. ()
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