The Honorary Consul [DVD]

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When the police deadline is about to expire, Plarr goes out to talk with them, with Leon shooting him in his leg. 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.

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. As a boy, he was forced to flee his native Paraguay after the arrest and subsequent disappearance of his father, a dissident. Another person the doctor meets is Clara (Elpidia Carrillo), whom he immediately falls in love with, but there is a problem: Clara is Charley's wife.

The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Fortnum overhears Plarr telling Leon of his adultery with Clara and saying that he, not Fortnum, is the father of the child that Clara is expecting. Rivas and Aquino take Plarr to a squalid hut in a shanty town while bargaining with the authorities. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. When the menu for the film comes up, make sure you look out for the word "Tonformat" on the menu when you want to change the audio setup to English before you start watching the film).

This is chiefly because the movie does not do a satisfactory job of explaining who or what the group is fighting against. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. They intend to ransom the ambassador for the release of political prisoners in Paraguay, including Plarr's father. In the United Kingdom, it is currently more popular than Them but less popular than Just Like Heaven. 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.He determines that the patient is in no danger from the morphine, but informs Leon that the person they kidnapped is not the American ambassador: he is Fortnum, the British consul. Fortnum spends much of his time, as he faces up to his impending death, sentimentalizing about Clara and remembering the fearsome figure of his father. The one character who is neither confused nor mechanical is the honorary consul, played by Michael Caine in an outstanding per- formance. The Honorary Consul (released in the US as Beyond The Limit) is a 1983 British drama film directed by John Mackenzie, and starring Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins and Elpidia Carrillo.