Directed by Phillip Noyce, The Quiet American is adapted from Graham Greene’s book of the same name. The movie is set in 1952 in Saigon, Vietnam during the French Indochina war. The movie starts with the discovery of the body of Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser) which is found floating in a river. Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine), a British news correspondent, recalls how he met Pyle and the movie flashes back to their first encounter.
Archive for November 19th, 2009
Movie Review: Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
Jessica Stein (the deliciously cute Jennifer Westfeldt) has it all or almost. She is a successful, straight, attractive single woman living in New York City. Frustrated of not finding a decent guy (she’s picky), she tries to find a friendship with another woman and answers an intriguing ad in the newspaper written by bisexual free-spirit Helen Cooper (Heather Juergensen) looking for her first lesbian relationship.
Movie Review: Kinsey (2004)
As this decade is coming to an end, I’ve been loading up on tons of movies so I will be able to make an informed best movies of the decade article a few weeks from now in collaboration with Red from Rediculous ideas. The next few reviews are going to be about movies that have gone way under the radar.
