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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 38434
Released: March 23, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
While attending a fundraising gala sarah a naive married american socialite living in england witnesses a fiery plea delivered by dr nick callahan. His plea made on behalf og impoverished african children under his care turns her life upside down. She abandons her life to work alongside him. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/03/2006 Starring: Angelina Jolie Clive Owen Run time: 126 minutes Rating: R Director: Martin Campbell
Description of Beyond Borders (Full Screen Edition):
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
Beyond Borders (Full Screen Edition) Reviews:
DVD Beyond Borders 
2008-10-25 - The movie arrived promptly and in excellent condition.I was unaware that there would be no cover for it, that was a bit disappointing.
another way of love story 
2008-05-27 - No measure of how the humen being when fall 4 a reason to live by & be belonged to other.
Great Movie!
2008-05-18 - This movie never got that much attention. It stars Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen before he got famous!
The story is absolutely moving and real, these things happen people, every day, all over the globe.
One of the few movies that I own and I own way too many, that I have watched over and over!
Great film, amazing acting!
Solid Effort; Years of Living Dangerously
2007-12-14 - I hate bleeding-heart melodramas set in third-world countries starring Hollywood beauty-queens, BUT this one has a lot going for it. Amazingly, the dialog is good and the set-up works. The doctor has all the same objections to the do-gooders that any cynic might have, so one feels relieved of the duty of finding fault with the rich, guilt-ridden Jolie character who heads off to Africa with a truck-load of goodies. It is a brutal bit of realistic footage - those starving babies aren't actors! The film has a bit of honor and may even have done some good, although I doubt it. Still, it is a worthy piece of agitprop theatre, just the kind of thing you'd expect Miss Jolie to be part of, but here she pulls it off with flair.
TRASH & GARBAGE!!!!!!! 
2007-09-25 - Too much cursing, profanity, adultery, and fornication! Need I say more... Angelina Jolie is a married woman who goes off to another country and has a secret love affair while her husband and child think she's off on some humanitarian trip. I hesitated when I saw her on the cover because she tends to flaunt her adulterous and bi-sexaul behavior. I got it because I like Clive Owen and I like movies filmed in Africa. It's not a family movie because they swear and curse a lot and has too much killing. I think it would have turned out better without the bad language and without the adultery and fornication.
