The Honorary Consul [DVD]

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When the police deadline is about to expire, Plarr goes out to talk with them, with Leon shooting him in his leg. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum, a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep Revolution from occurring. During a dirty war a half-English doctor in Argentina befriends the police, the rebels and the alcoholic Honorary British Consul, whose Latino wife he seduces. 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. Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote of "the grossly meaningless title that has been attached—like a bathtub to a car—to the screen adaptation of The Honorary Consul, Mr.

Retitled from The Honorary Consul and sold in America with one of Paramount’s sleaziest ad campaigns, John MacKenzie and Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of a Graham Greene novel features a fine Michael Caine performance, but prefers to stress sex scenes between star Richard Gere and Elpidia Carrillo. The book was made into the 1983 film The Honorary Consul (also released as Beyond the Limit), directed by John Mackenzie, with Richard Gere as Plarr and Michael Caine as Fortnum. He determines that the patient is in no danger from the morphine, but informs Leon that the person they kidnapped is not the American ambassador: he is Fortnum, the British consul. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This is chiefly because the movie does not do a satisfactory job of explaining who or what the group is fighting against. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. The Honorary Consul (released in the US as Beyond The Limit) is a 1983 British drama film directed by John Mackenzie, and starring Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins and Elpidia Carrillo. Plarr makes the acquaintance of the dissolute and heavy-drinking Charley Fortnum, the honorary British consul.

Now a practicing doctor in a small Argentinian city, Plarr is approached by an old friend who tells him he's working with the Paraguayan underground and a disgraced British counsel (Michael Caine) on a plan to kidnap an ambassador and hold him for ransom in exchange for the release of Parr's father and several other prisoners. In the final analysis, though it starts nobly, the movie does not accomplish what it set out to do: i.The movie, true to the original author's intent, makes this relationship central to the plot development. Army paratroopers surround the hut while the failed priest, Rivas, conducts a makeshift mass inside with the rain coming down. The kidnappers' first attempt to intercept the cars fails when they get held up by a military convoy.

The UK embassy then relieves Fortnum of his consulship and tell him he will be appointed an OBE in the next UK honours.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. Plarr travels to Buenos Aires in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade the British ambassador to intervene. Nonetheless, he finds himself obsessed by Clara and seduces her with a pair of highly decorative sunglasses. They intend to ransom the ambassador for the release of political prisoners in Paraguay, including Plarr's father. So many times his mother had used the word when he was a child; it was like the threat of an armed robber.