The Quiet American

Starring

Writers

Director

Phillip Noyce

Producers

Release

2001

Time

118 minutes

Rating

Synopsis

Set in early 1950s Vietnam, a young American becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle when he falls for the beautiful mistress of a British journalist. As war is waged around them, these three only sink deeper into a world of passion, drugs and deceit. Nothing, and no one, is as it seems, in this adaptation of Graham Greene's classic and prophetic story of love, betrayal, murder and the origin of the US war in Vietnam.

Awards

2003 Academy Awards

Nominated

Best Actor - Leading Role

Awards

2003 Golden Globes

Nominated

Best Actor - Drama

Featured Clips

The Quiet American - Love At First Sight

The Quiet American - Interviewing the General

The Quiet American - The Letter

The Quiet American - Pyle's Proposal

The Quiet American - Behaving Badly

The Quiet American - Essential

The Quiet American - Pleased to See Him

The Quiet American - Are You Married?

The Quiet American - Strategic Attack

The Quiet American - An Independent Leader

The Quiet American - Remaining Uninvolved

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In the throws of a Communist attack, Fowler confronts Pyle about the real reason he's come up north, but Pyle's answer is not what he expects. In this scene: Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine), Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser)