Beyond Borders (Widescreen Edition)

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In this compelling, globe-trotting saga, Angelina Jolie is a married woman who meets dashing relief worker Clive Owen at a fundraiser in England in 1984, then joins him in Africa to deliver food and medicine to the poor. The two begin a relationship that continues as they reunite over the years in such troubled locations as Cambodia and Chechnya. Teri Polo, Linus Roache co-star. 126 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Surround, French Dolby Digital Surround; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; "making of" documentary; interview; featurette. NOTE: This Title Is Out Of Print; Limit One Per Customer.
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