The constant gardener [videorecording].

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 22106 | Alliance Atlantis/Focus FeaturesLanguage: English, French Summary language: English, French, Spanish Series: Focus Features spotlight seriesPublication details: Montréal, Québec : distributed exclusively in Canada by Alliance Atlantis/Motion Picture Distribution LP, c2005.Description: 1 videodisc (129 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital Surround sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inOther title:
  • French title from container: Constance du jardinier
Subject(s): Production credits:
  • Produced by Simon Channing-Williams ; screenplay by Jeffrey Caine ; directed by Fernando Meirelles.
Cast: Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz with Hubert Koundé, Danny Huston, Bill Nighy and Pete Postlethwaite.Summary: In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents. Using his privileged access to diplomatic secrets, Justin risks his own life and will stop at nothing to expose the truth - a conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than Quayle could ever have imagined.
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Based on the novel by John Le Carré.

Program content : Focus Features LLC/Scion Films/TGC Production Partnership/UK Film Council, 2005.

Special features: Deleted scenes ; extended scene ; embracing Africa ; filming in Kenya ; John Le Carré: from page to the screen ; anatomy of a global thriller: behind the scenes of The constant gardener.

Produced by Simon Channing-Williams ; screenplay by Jeffrey Caine ; directed by Fernando Meirelles.

Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz with Hubert Koundé, Danny Huston, Bill Nighy and Pete Postlethwaite.

In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents. Using his privileged access to diplomatic secrets, Justin risks his own life and will stop at nothing to expose the truth - a conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than Quayle could ever have imagined.

Region 1 videodisc.

Home use only.

Includes English & French language tracks with optional Enlgish (SDH), French or Spanish subtitles.

Closed-captioned.

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