The Quiet American (2002 film)
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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.
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The Quiet American | |
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Directed by | Phillip Noyce |
Written by | Christopher Hampton Robert Schenkkan |
Based on | The Quiet American by Graham Greene |
Produced by | Staffan Ahrenberg William Horberg |
Starring | Michael Caine Brendan Fraser Do Thi Hai Yen |
Cinematography | Christopher Doyle |
Edited by | John Scott |
Music by | Craig Armstrong |
Distributed by | Miramax Films |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
Countries | Germany United States United Kingdom France |
Language | English |
Budget | $30 million |
Box office | $27,674,124 |
The 2002 version of The Quiet American is faithful to the novel, in contrast to the 1958 film version which abandoned Greene's cautionary tale about foreign intervention into anticommunist advocacy of American power. Like the novel, the 2002 film illustrates the moral culpability of American agents in arranging terrorist actions aimed at the French colonial government and the Viet Minh. Going beyond Greene's original work, the film used a montage ending with superimposed images of American soldiers from the intervening decades of the Vietnam War.
Miramax paid $5.5 million for the rights to distribute the film in North America and some other territories, but it shelved the film when test audiences in the wake of the September 11 attacks perceived the film as unpatriotic.[1] The film finally received an Oscar qualification release in November 2002 and went on to gross US$12.9 million in limited theatrical release in the United States. The film received positive reviews from critics and Caine was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.