Synopsis
Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984, is married to the son of a wealthy British industrialist. She encounters Nick Callahan, a renegade doctor, whose impassioned plea for help to support his relief efforts in war-torn Africa moves her deeply. As a result, Sarah embarks upon a journey of discovery that leads to danger, heartbreak and romance in the far corners of the world.
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Cast
- Angelina JolieSarah Jordan
- Clive OwenNick Callahan
- Teri PoloCharlotte Jordan
- Linus RoacheHenry Bauford
- Noah EmmerichElliott Hauser
- Yorick van WageningenSteiger
- Timothy WestLawrence Bauford
- Jonathan HigginsPhilip
- Iain LeeMaster of Ceremonies
- Kate TrotterMrs. Bauford
Recommendations
- 50
L.A. Weekly
As kitsch, however, it's pretty enjoyable. Jolie and Owen perform with such conviction, and the film -- blissfully unaware of its own badness -- takes its paperback-romance shenanigans with such goofy gravity, that it's easy to get caught up in the whole, soap-opera thrust of the thing. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
Jolie, in this movie at least, has exactly two expressions: blank wistfulness and blank dismay. She reduces the tides of history to one more raided tomb. - 50
Chicago Tribune
By throwing so much weight to the love story and increasingly contrived setups, the movie does what you secretly, guiltily hope it will do: It lets you off the hook. - 50
USA Today
Angelina Jolie slums her way through Beyond Borders, a film that telegraphs its plot and then drags ploddingly, its humane spirit obscured by an inane script and Jolie's implausible character. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Even assuming the best possible motives by its makers, Beyond Borders runs the risk of making human suffering exotic while glamorizing white disaster relief workers in the Third World. - 40
Dallas Observer
It's not a bad film, exactly, just a confused one, too violent to be a straight romance and too focused on aid relief to be an ass-kicking action flick. - 40
Salon
Has a TV Movie of the Week righteousness about it -- you can feel the way the filmmakers and the director are struggling to educate us, even as they must surely know, deep in their hearts, that the florid, doomed romance is the real focus of the movie. - 30
Variety
Star-driven, high-minded claptrap that, fatally, can't even rig a rooting interest in its central love story.
