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With: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen
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Written by: Christopher Hampton, Robert Schenkkan, based on the novel by Graham Greene
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Directed by: Phillip Noyce
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MPAA Rating: R for images of violence and some language
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Running Time: 101
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Date: 09/09/2002
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The Quiet American (2002)
The Greene Mile
By Jeffrey M. Anderson Michael Caine won the San Francisco Film Critics Circle award for his understated performance as Thomas Fowler, a British reporter stationed in 1950s Vietnam. The American of the title is Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser), who ostensibly wants to provide medical care for the locals but may have a darker agenda. Certainly he wants to steal Fowler's girl, the beautiful young Vietnamese woman Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen), whom Fowler can't marry. Director Phillip Noyce landed a beautiful one-two punch with this and Rabbit-Proof Fence, two political films with politics in the background and delicate human storytelling in the foreground. Based on Graham Greene's 1955 novel.
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