THE QUIET AMERICAN

Year: 2002
USA: Miramax
UK: Buena Vista International
Cast: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija, Quang Hai, Tzi Ma, Robert Stanton, Holmes Osborne, Pham Thi Mai Hoa, Ferdinand Hoang, Nguyen Thi Hieu, Khoa Do, Mathias Mlekuz, Hong Nhung, Mark Szeto
Director: Phillip Noyce
Countries: USA / Germany
USA: 118 mins
UK: 100 mins
USA Rated: R for images of violence and some language
UK Certificate: 15 contains grisly war images
USA Release Date: 22 November 2002 (Limited Release - Los Angeles and New York)
UK Release Date: 29 November 2002


Synopsis

From the classic novel by Graham Greene comes a murder mystery centred on a love triangle set against the French Indochina War in Vietnam, circa 1952. It's the story of Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine), a veteran English journalist, a young American Alden Pyle, (Brendan Fraser), and Phuong (Do Hai Yen), the beautiful Vietnamese woman caught between them. This is a world where nothing is as it seems - suffused with opium, intrigue and betrayal.