The Sleeping Dictionary

Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Jessica Alba Director: Guy Jenkin Original UK Premiere: 2003 Dvd Release: 29th March, 2004 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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The Sleeping Dictionary is a 2003 film by Guy Jenkin. It was filmed in Sarawak, India & is set during the British colonial rule of India. A young & naive Englishman, John Truscott, goes to the British colony Sarawak to try & apply his fathers work to the Iban society. He tries to civilize them, building schools & providing education for the Iban people. He is met with unfamiliar local customs. Selima becomes his sleeping dictionary, who sleeps with him & teaches him the language & the habits of the locals. Despite their intents, the two find themselves falling into a forbidden love. The Sleeping Dictionary at the Internet Movie Database -->.

This movie is set in Sarawak in the 30s, & being from around this area, i can see how close to the truth it is! Although Alba is of a hispanic mix, she plays the character of an Iban girl very well, including the accent! Dancy is also..*ahem* yummy & really knows how to play the naive Englishman! I recomend this movie to all who enjoy love stories like this. Definately a ladies movie!

Brenda Blethyn is a British actress & an OBE. After studying at the Guildford School of Acting, she went on the London stage, where she won the London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1980 for Steaming. She had a reputation as a Shakespearean actress on stage by the time she won two key roles in the BBC s complete works of Shakespeare during the early 1980s, playing Cordelia in King Lear & Joan of Arc in the Henry VI cycle. She did a great deal of British television, including several episodes of Alas Smith & Jones & several series of the sitcom, Chance in a Million, before debuting in films in The Witches in 1990. But it was her performance in Secrets & Lies which garnered her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In 1998 she was again Oscar nominated, this time for Best Supporting Actress for Little Voice. Blethyn has also appeared in A River Runs Through It & has done voice actor work in The Wild Thornberrys Movie. Posters Of Little Voice

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Jessica Marie Alba is an American actress. She is known for her roles in movies such as Idle Hands & her starring role in the TV series Dark Angel. She got her first starring movie role in Honey & went on to appear in prominent roles in Sin City & Fantastic Four. // Alba was born in Pomona, California to Mark Alba & Cathy Jensen. Alba was raised in a military family, living with her parents, her brother Joshua & her grandparents until she was sixteen. She grew up a sports fanatic. Her fathers navy career took the family to Biloxi, Mississippi & Del Rio, Texas, before they settled back in California when she was nine. Albas early life had been marked by a multitude of physical maladies, as she suffered collapsed lungs twice, had pneumonia 4-5 times a year, a burst appendix, a cyst on her tonsils & asthma. This served to isolate her from other children at school because, as she claims, she was in the hospital so often that no one knew her well enough to befriend her. She also revealed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno that she suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder as a child. Posters Of Jessica Alba

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