Beyond Borders (Widescreen Edition) |  | Director: Martin Campbell
Actors: Angelina Jolie, Clive Owen, Teri Polo, Linus Roache, Noah Emmerich
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  82 reviews
Sales Rank: 18679
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 126 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PARD339924D
UPC: 097363399247
EAN: 0097363399247
ASIN: B0001AW02A
Theatrical Release Date: October 24, 2003
Release Date: March 23, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Romantic adventure, marital crisis, and the tragedy of global hunger are combined with mixed but respectable results in Beyond Borders, starring Angelina Jolie in a role that reflects her off-screen efforts as a United Nations goodwill ambassador. Jolie plays a naive American socialite, unhappily married and living in London, whose life is revolutionized when a passionate doctor (Clive Owen, replacing original costar Kevin Costner) draws her into the cause of humanitarian aid in the world's most dangerous political hot-spots including Ethiopia, Cambodia (where Jolie adopted her first child), and Chechnya in the 1980s and '90s. Directed by Martin (Goldeneye) Campbell, who replaced Oliver Stone during troubled pre-production, this well-meaning film suffers from schizophrenic priorities: Is it a globetrotting love story? An impassioned political exposé? Powerful scenes and fine performances can't entirely offset the film's identity crisis, and the ending strives for a quality of martyrdom that it doesn't really earn. --Jeff Shannon
Product Description
An English socialite gives up her luxurious lifestyle when she falls in love with a doctor and follows him to Africa, to help those suffering in poverty.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 20-DEC-2005
Media Type: DVD
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 Beyond Borders (Widescreen Edition) February 8, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
Beyond Borders is about the turbulent romance between two star-crossed lovers set against the backdrop of the world's most dangerous hot spots. Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984. She is married to Henry Bauford son of a wealthy British industrialist, when she encounters Nick Callahan a renegade doctor, whose impassioned plea for help to support his relief efforts in war-torn Africa moves her deeply. As a result, Sarah embarks upon a journey of discovery that leads to danger, heartbreak and romance in the far corners of the world. This is an extremely well-structured, rare, thought-provoking and sobering type of movie. It took my attention and kept it till the end. "Beyond Borders" presents you with a glimpse of the world, and it asks you to believe in it, to internalize it. Powerful, affecting, and lingering movie.
One of my favorite movies... November 3, 2009
Jada Drysdale (Kennesaw, GA)
I love this movie. It's really sad and could be depressing to some, but I love this movie. Clive Owen perfectly depicts the stressed out, stretched-two-thin, aid worker attitude. This movie shows real depictions of the mess that is refugee camps. They never have enough funds, workers, or food and are constantly stressing to help others. This movie is intense, tense and may be difficult to watch for some but it shows the real hardships of aid workers and the refugees.
The end is sad but most of the movie is too.
However, the sadness is expertly acted and not without reason.
Very good movie.
choosing the high road August 17, 2009
Lolly Anderson (Oklahoma City)
I loved Beyond Borders and watched it twice in one day. This story about relief aid workers, individuals giving up comfort and security, safety and love to help suffering people around the world puts our Western world priorities in perspective. The love story within the political story is memorable because the lovers were driven by something greater than their own pleasure.
Much needed exposure to this subject! January 27, 2009
Diane L. Edenfield (California, USA)
I LOVED this movie! But then I always wanted to be a relief worker (until I grew up and didn't want to die). I know, it sounds crazy. They risk everything to help people less fortunate than themselves. I have much more respect for Angelina Jolie now. This movie is not for people who love fairytale's.
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Barbara L. Gilbreath (Ashburn VA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I ordered this item and then afterwards was told that it was not available from that seller. So I re-ordered from another seller - that is why you see two of the same. I hope that I was reimbursed for the first order as I never received. Barbara Gilbreath
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