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The Quiet American is a 2002 political drama film and the adaptation of Graham Greene's bestselling 1955 novel set in Vietnam, The Quiet American. It is directed by Phillip Noyce and stars Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, and Do Thi Hai Yen.
Mar 7, 2003 · The Quiet American: Directed by Phillip Noyce. With Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija. An old British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman.
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- Drama, Romance, Thriller
- Phillip Noyce
- 2003-03-07
In early 1950s Vietnam, a young American becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle when he falls for the beautiful mistress of a British journalist. As war is waged around them, the trio sinks deeper into a world of drugs, passion, and betrayal where nothing is as it seems.
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- Phillip Noyce
- R
- 20
Nov 22, 2002 · Thoughtful and wonderfully acted, The Quiet American manages to capture the spirit of Green's novel. From the classic novel by Graham Greene comes a murder mystery centered on a love triangle...
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- Phillip Noyce
- R
- Michael Caine
Feb 7, 2003 · Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American (1955) told the story of this triangle against the background of America's adventure in Vietnam in the early 1950s--when, he shows us, the CIA used pleasant, presentable agents like Pyle to pose as "aid workers" while arranging terrorist acts that would justify our intervention there.
American aid worker Alden Pyle arrives in Saigon in the fall of 1952, at the height of the Vietnamese fight for independence from French colonial rule. Filled with zeal for his mission to help the people of Vietnam through his economic aid program and eager to learn the lay of the land from a...
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It was adapted to film in 1958, and again in 2002 by Miramax. The 2002 film featured Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser, and earned Caine a Best Actor nomination. When the novel was first published in the United States in 1956, however, it was widely condemned there as anti-American.
