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Synopsis: Americans Alice and Peter Bowman have traveled from third world country to third world country working on humanitarian projects. They are currently in Tecala, a country nestled in the Andes, as Peter, an engineer, has been hired by QUAD Carbon, an oil company - the moral "enemy" - to lead a project to construct a dam to prevent what is the constant flooding in the country. Alice and Peter eventually learn that QUAD Carbon cares nothing about the dam, which is just a smoke-screen to get an oil pipeline approved and built. Despite loving each other, they have had problems in the marriage of late because of being in Tecala, where Alice has not been able to find her place, and needing to deal with the aftermath of Alice's recent miscarriage. On his way to work one day, Peter, along with a group of others, are random kidnap victims of left wing guerrillas, the Liberation Army of Tecala (ELT), whose reason for being has changed from a political agenda to a monetary one, primarily getting sai
Director(s): Taylor Hackford
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
45
Rotten Tomatoes:
40%
R
Year:
2000
135 min
$31,193,043
Website
553 Views


He needs it now.

He's alive!

lt's right here.

Carlos, look at me. Who am l?

-You're an a**hole.

-That's f***ing right!

Are you all right?

Don't you f***ing die on me, man!

l can't tell on you....

He always does this sh*t!

You're a p*ssy! He's a f***ing p*ssy, man!

How is it?

Who are you?

Terry Thorne.

How's my wife?

She okay?

She misses you.

She's waiting for you where we land.

Welcome home!

Keep your head down.

Hello, Alice.

You all right?

Sandro!

-Hi.

-Hi.

You look great.

l need one minute.

Okay.

-We did it.

-You did it.

You know, you better get going.

We could be very unpopular

around here in the future.

-l thought we'd get a chance--

-What?

To sit around and chat? The three of us?

There's a 6:
00 American flight to Dallas.

You can make it.

There's a passport in the Jeep for Peter.

Norma will pack the house.

She'll send everything up.

His leg looks bad but it can wait till Dallas.

This is important.

No telephone calls...

...no high-fives, no champagne.

You get to the airport...

...and you make that plane.

Just tell me

you know how much you mean to me.

So we're even.

No, we'll never be even.

l've given you...

-...nothing.

-Believe me, we're even.

You deserve more than this.

You got a plane to catch.

l'll see you around, Mrs. Bowman.

Get my Duke Ellington records.

Get me the Scotch.

The good sh*t. Twelve-year-old, not crap.

Remember the encrypted phone.

Take care, Alice.

Who's the man?

Stuff of legends. You are the man.

Sandro,

we've got to get to the airport fast.

We've got a flight in an hour.

We made it.

Yeah.

Let's go home.

You and me, we open our own shop.

l run New York, you run London.

We meet in the Caymans once a month

to visit our money.

Strictly white glove. Lots of long lunches.

No more f***ing frontlines.

Some consulting, some policies...

...and we give lan a heart attack

before we open the doors.

l don't know if I want you

visiting my money.

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Tony Gilroy

Anthony Joseph "Tony" Gilroy is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. He wrote the screenplays for the Bourne series starring Matt Damon, among other successful films, and directed the fourth film of the franchise. more…

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