"The truth needs no translation."

2005

2h 8m

6.3(1637 votes)

Crime

Thriller

Overview

After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.

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10 featured cast members

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Nicole Kidman

Silvia Broome

Sean Penn

Tobin Keller

Catherine Keener

Dot Woods

Jesper Christensen

Nils Lud

Yvan Attal

Philippe

Earl Cameron

Zuwanie

George Harris

Kuman-Kuman

Michael Wright

Marcus

Clyde Kusatsu

Police Chief Lee Wu

Eric Keenleyside

Rory Robb

Creative team

Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Written by: Martin Stellman
Brian Ward
Produced by: Tim Bevan
Eric Fellner

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