The Honorary Consul [DVD]

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Eduardo Plarr is an unmarried medical doctor of English descent who, as a boy, fled to Buenos Aires with his Paraguayan mother to escape the political turmoil of Paraguay. The kidnappers' first attempt to intercept the cars fails when they get held up by a military convoy. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum, a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep Revolution from occurring.

Retitled from The Honorary Consul and sold in America with one of Paramount’s sleaziest ad campaigns, John MacKenzie and Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of a Graham Greene novel features a fine Michael Caine performance, but prefers to stress sex scenes between star Richard Gere and Elpidia Carrillo. The UK embassy then relieves Fortnum of his consulship and tell him he will be appointed an OBE in the next UK honours. In the final analysis, though it starts nobly, the movie does not accomplish what it set out to do: i. The film was produced by Norma Heyman, the first British woman to produce a solo independent feature film. Plarr initially refuses, but reluctantly agrees when Leon tells him that his father is one of the prisoners.

Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum (Michael Caine), a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep revolution from occurring. Nonetheless, he finds himself obsessed by Clara and seduces her with a pair of highly decorative sunglasses. The Honorary Consul is a 1983 British drama film directed by John Mackenzie and starring Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins and Elpidia Carrillo. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.

Beyond the Limit" may not be as thoughtfully developed as it should be, but it is interesting to see the film's producers try to convey the important moral message of the original novel. He accepts the fact that he is not the father of the baby, and even suggests naming the child Eduardo, after Plarr. We are supposed to believe that a Latin American dictator has been committing atrocities, but what effective recourse the revolutionaries have against him is never fully explained. All of this comes together to create problems when he is asked to help revolutionaries kidnap a diplomat. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual.

His party sets out in two cars, with Fortnum driving the first car, the ambassador in the passenger seat. Now a practicing doctor in a small Argentinian city, Plarr is approached by an old friend who tells him he's working with the Paraguayan underground and a disgraced British counsel (Michael Caine) on a plan to kidnap an ambassador and hold him for ransom in exchange for the release of Parr's father and several other prisoners. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The film was produced by Norma Heyman, marking the first time that a British woman entirely produced an independent feature film in history. Plarr has been taken to the hut to treat Fortnum, who has been shot in the leg while attempting to escape, lies drinking whisky.

Plarr's mother, once a beauty and now bloated, along with some of his previous mistresses, attends his funeral. The staff of Variety wrote that "strong talents on both sides of the camera haven’t managed to breathe life into this intricate tale of emotional and political betrayal and [the] result is a steady dose of tedium.Another person the doctor meets is Clara, whom he immediately falls in love with, but there is a problem: Clara is Charley's wife. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. During a dirty war a half-English doctor in Argentina befriends the police, the rebels and the alcoholic Honorary British Consul, whose Latino wife he seduces. Army paratroopers surround the hut while the failed priest, Rivas, conducts a makeshift mass inside with the rain coming down. His English father remained in Paraguay as a political rebel and, aside from a single hand-delivered letter, they never hear from him again.