Beyond Borders
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United States, 2003
U.S. Release Date: 10/24/03 (wide)
Running Length: 2:07
MPAA Classification: R (Violence, profanity, sex)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Clive Owen, Linus Roache, Teri Polo, Yorick van Wageningen, Noah Emmerich
Director: Martin Campbell
Producers: Dan Halsted, Lloyd Phillips
Screenplay: Caspian Tredwell-Owen
Cinematography: Phil Meheux
Music: James Horner
U.S. Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Movie Rental Review Rating: 9/10
Beyond Borders is about woman named Sarah Jordan (Angelina Jolie) who lives in the upper crust of British society. She gets introduced to a relief worker named Nick Callahan (Clive Owen) that crashes a fancy dinner party she was attending. This meeting touches her so deeply that she collects $40,000 to purchase food and medicine, and then proceeds to deliver it to Ethiopia personally. On the trip to the refugee camp where the Nick is stationed, she sees first hand the plight of the Ethiopian people. She picks a mother and her young son who is dying of starvation, this scene was very moving because of how malnourished state of the boy. After she arrives, she sees how callus Nick is to the condition of the wounded mother and starving child. I believe she was able to give his emotions a bit of a “shot in the arm” to remember what he was there for. She leaves a little discouraged after finding out that the supplies she brought would only sustain the camp for four days. Five years pass, Sarah works for the U.N. and flies off to Cambodia to aid Nick because she knows her marriage to Henry Bauford (Linus Roache) is falling apart. She finds out Nick is funding his relief effort by smuggling arms for the CIA. Sarah is not impressed with these actions because it impedes future relief missions. Nick tells Sarah that he lovers here but because of Nick extremely dangerous work, he has to part ways again. Next is six years later, she heads to Chechnya because she senses that Nick is in real trouble and she is right.
The Movie Rental Review found this movie to be very hard to watch at times because of the human tragedies happening to the refugees the Nick was attempting to help. However, this movie gets a high rating because of the wake-up call to the needs of poor and displaced people around the earth it presents.
