Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, which jump starts an interlocking story involving four different families.Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, which jump starts an interlocking story involving four different families.Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, which jump starts an interlocking story involving four different families.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 45 wins & 137 nominations total
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- TriviaThe scene where Chieko (Rinko Kikuchi) and her father are in the car together was shot without filming permission from the city due to slow Japanese bureaucratic procedures. The crew created "man-made" busy traffic, and began shooting the scene. Later the police started chasing them while still shooting the scene.
- GoofsAfter the wedding, Amelia, her nephew and the Jones children use the Tecate border crossing to reenter the USA. After fleeing, we are shown a sandy, wide desert where they wander. Actually, the Tecate border crossing is in the mountains, there is no such desert within a reasonable distance on the USA side. What is shown looks like an Arizona border crossing.
- Quotes
Mike Jones: My mom said Mexico is dangerous.
Santiago: [in Spanish] Yes, it's full of Mexicans.
- SoundtracksPara Que Regreses
El Chapo
Gabriel Ramirez
Maximo Aguirre Music Publishing, Inc.
D Disa Latin Music, S. de R.L. de C.V
Featured review
That damned tower of ours
I admire Gonzalez Inarritu's balls and his talent of course. He opens himself up for a barrage of criticism and ridicule but at the end his genius wins. I saw the film months ago and I still think about it. I haven't seen it again because the recollection is so powerful and I don't want to mess it up by seeing it again intentionally. The Mexican woman with the white kids in the desert has become part of my nightmares. What an enormous thing for a movie to accomplish. I'm giving it a 10 and not because I "like" the film so much but because I saw myself coming to the conclusion that the film is a masterpiece all on my own. It inspires respect. Christ! I can't believe I'm saying that but I am and I'm meaning every word. In a way it reminds me of Bunuel's "Viridiana" a film that I hated so much it has become one of the most important films of my life. Go figure. To be disturbed. I mean deeply disturbed is a strange experience and I suspect that it has to do with being confronted by the truth.
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- alanbittencourtx
- Jun 16, 2007
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- Tháp Babel
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- Budget
- $25,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $34,302,837
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $389,351
- Oct 29, 2006
- Gross worldwide
- $135,330,835
- Runtime2 hours 23 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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