Babel
DVD - 2007
A wealthy American is touring Morocco with his wife. The two become the focus of an international incident also involving a poor Moroccan farmer who is struggling to keep his two young sons in line and his family together. A San Diego nanny, with her employers absent, makes the disastrous decision to take her charges with her to a wedding in Mexico. A deaf-mute Japanese teen tries to deal with a relationship with her father and the world in general that has been upended by the death of her mother. It's about a gun. It's about communication - or the lack of it - both intercultural and intracultural. Raises issues like terrorism and immigration, and is as basic as husbands talking to their wives and parents understanding their child...ren.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
Thrillers (Motion pictures) - Published
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Hollywood, Calif. :
Paramount Home Entertainment
[2007], c2006.
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Widescreen ed
- Item Description
- Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2006.
Based on the idea by Guillermo Arriaga and Alejandro González Iñárritu. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (DVD)(143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- Region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital.
- Audience
- MPAA rating: R; for violence, some graphic nudity, sexual content, language and some drug use.
- Awards
- Cannes Film Festival, 2006: Best Director (Alejandro González Iñárritu) ; Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Alejandro González Iñárritu) ; Technical Grand Prize (Stephen Mirrione).
- Production Credits
- Director of photography, Rodrigo Prieto ; editors, Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione ; music, Gustavo Santaolalla ; costume designer, Michael Wilkinson ; production designer, Brigitte Broch ; visual effects supervisor, Lon Molnar.