The Honorary Consul [DVD]

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Army paratroopers surround the hut while the failed priest, Rivas, conducts a makeshift mass inside with the rain coming down. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The movie, true to the original author's intent, makes this relationship central to the plot development.

Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum (Michael Caine), a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep revolution from occurring. Fortnum asks Plarr to come to his house to attend to his wife, who is complaining of stomach cramps. Another person the doctor meets is Clara, whom he immediately falls in love with, but there is a problem: Clara is Charley's wife.

The film was produced by Norma Heyman, the first British woman to produce a solo independent feature film.

Starring: Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins, Elpidia Carrillo, Joaquim de Almeida, A Martinez, Stephanie Cotsirilos, Domingo Ambriz, Geoffrey Palmer, Jorge Russek, Erika Carlsson, George Belanger. When the police deadline is about to expire, Plarr goes out to talk with them, with Leon shooting him in his leg. Nonetheless, he finds himself obsessed by Clara and seduces her with a pair of highly decorative sunglasses.When Plarr moves to Corrientes, a quiet, subtropical backwater, he meets the two other English inhabitants: Humphries, a bitter elderly English teacher; and Charles Fortnum, the unimportant British honorary consul, a divorced, self-pitying alcoholic who abuses his position for gain. They intend to ransom the ambassador for the release of political prisoners in Paraguay, including Plarr's father. Eduardo Plarr is an unmarried medical doctor of English descent who, as a boy, fled to Buenos Aires with his Paraguayan mother to escape the political turmoil of Paraguay.

We are supposed to believe that a Latin American dictator has been committing atrocities, but what effective recourse the revolutionaries have against him is never fully explained.His English father remained in Paraguay as a political rebel and, aside from a single hand-delivered letter, they never hear from him again. Beyond the Limit" may not be as thoughtfully developed as it should be, but it is interesting to see the film's producers try to convey the important moral message of the original novel. When the menu for the film comes up, make sure you look out for the word "Tonformat" on the menu when you want to change the audio setup to English before you start watching the film). They tell Plarr his father is alive and in a jail in Paraguay, and that they have a plot for which a doctor's assistance is needed to kidnap the US Ambassador on his trip to Corrientes to see ruins.