The Interpreter

Starring: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn Original UK Premiere: 2005 Dvd Release: 15th August, 2005 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: Arabic, Bulgarian, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic, Swedish

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The Interpreter is a 2005 drama / thriller film, directed by Sydney Pollack & starring Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn & Catherine Keener. The film has a complex plot involving a United Nations interpreter, Silvia Broome, who accidentally overhears two people planning to assassinate someone. Sean Penn plays Tobin Keller, the United States Secret Service agent sent to protect her. The presumed target is the President of the Democratic Republic of Matobo, Edmond Zuwanie, who is scheduled to speak before the General Assembly in a desperate attempt to head off prosecution in the International Criminal Court ; his regime has become notorious for a vicious policy of ethnic cleansing. Both the country & leader are fictional, but they appear to be caricatures of Zimbabwe & Robert Mugabe ; the fictional flag used in in the film as well as the fictional history mentioned are very similar to those of Zimbabwe. Posters Of The Interpreter

Director Sydney Pollack delivers megawatt star power, high gloss, & political passion to The Interpreter, his first thriller since The Firm. With Nicole Kidman & Sean Penn delivering smooth, understated performances, the film more closely recalls Pollacks 1975 Robert Redford/Faye Dunaway paranoid thriller Three Days of the Condor, trading conspiratorial politicians for potential assassination in the United Nations General Assembly . Kidman plays a U.N. interpreter who inadvertently overhears hints of a plot to kill the reviled, tyrannical leader of her African homeland; Penn is the Secret Service agent assigned to protect her, or to determine her role in the assassination scenario. By distancing itself from real-life politics, The Interpreter softens its potential impact as a thriller about contemporary globalization & threats to international peace, but the Penn/Kidman personal drama adds a richly human dimension to Pollacks expert handling of the thriller elements of a complex yet easily-followed plot. Indie-film stalwart Catherine Keener shines in her supporting role as Penns sarcastic by sympathetic Secret Service partner.

Nicole Kidman is an Australian actress & singer. Kidman is the daughter of Dr Antony David Kidman & his wife Janelle Ann. Her father was a cancer research specialist in Washington, D,C ; because of which Nicole was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. The family returned to Australia when Nicole four years old. when Tony Kidman took on a lectureship at the University of Technology, Sydney. Nicole’s studied first at the North Sydney High School. She had started taking ballet lessons when she was three & this led to studies at St. Martins Youth Theatre in Melbourne, the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney & then to the Philip Street Theatre, where she majored in voice production & theatre history. She had dropped out of North Sydney Girls High School at the time her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer & Kidman concentrated on her family responsibilities until her mothers recovery. Her first appearance on film came in 1983 when, as a 15 year-old, she appeared in the Pat Wilson music video for the song Bop Girl. Posters Of Nicole Kidman

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Sean Penn is a American film actor noted for his inflammatory & sometimes violent personality. Penn is the son of director Leo Penn, who was blacklisted during McCarthyism for refusing to testify. actor Chris Penn & musician Michael Penn. Penn has starred in over 40 movies & has won an Academy Award for Mystic River. He has also been nominated for three other Academy Awards. Penn lives in Marin County, California, north of San Francisco. Once married to pop icon Madonna, Penn is currently married to actress Robin Wright, whom he wed on April 27, 1996. They have two children together, born before the two were married. On October 18, 2002, Penn placed an $56,000 advertisement in the Washington Post asking President Bush to end a cycle of violence. It was written as an open letter & referred to the planned attack on Iraq & the War on Terror. In the letter, Penn also criticised the Bush administration for its deconstruction of civil liberties & its simplistic & inflammatory view of good & evil. Penn visited Iraq briefly in December 2002, largely eschewing meetings with the press. Posters Of Mystic River

Editors Choice: Mystic River, 21 Grams, The Interpreter, September 11, The Assassination Of Richard Nixon, I Am Sam, Dogtown And Z Boys, The Pledge, View DVDology

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