Release Date: Feb 18, 2003 Wide
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Guy Jenkin directs this straight-to-video romantic drama shot on-location in Malaysia. In the rainforests of Boreno in the 1930s, English officer John Truscott (Hugh Dancy) accepts a position to colonize the native population of Sarawak at the request of the British government. In following with the native tradition, he is given the services of a servant, Selima (Jessica Alba). A position that British officers refer to as a "sleeping dictionary," she is a concubine to share his bed and teach him
Feb 18, 2003 Wide
Feb 18, 2003
Fine Line Features
All Critics (3) | Fresh (0) | Rotten (4) | DVD (8)
If your taste runs to palm fronds and moonlit rendezvous, you might enjoy this impeccably produced bit of kitsch.
I can't say much for the wandering storyline...
Moments of brilliance surrounded by occasional utter nonsense.
A rather stiff soap opera romantic-melodrama.
This I never saw advertised in the cinema, but I watched it because of Jessica Albas recent fame. I would have expected it would have been a more popular film, its good, its fun, adult family film for the parents perhaps. Its a Romance.
January 10, 2008Super Reviewer
First off, I give you the good news: Jessica Alba has nude scenes in this film. Rejoice perverts. The bad news: It was a body double. =( Anyway, the movie didn't sound too appealing to begin with but nothing else was on. I'm glad I had the chance to see this. I'm unsure as to whether the story is based on any reality
September 13, 2007
Super Reviewer
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