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A world-renowned opera singer becomes trapped in a hostage situation when she's invited to perform for a wealthy industrialist in South America.A world-renowned opera singer becomes trapped in a hostage situation when she's invited to perform for a wealthy industrialist in South America.A world-renowned opera singer becomes trapped in a hostage situation when she's invited to perform for a wealthy industrialist in South America.
Ethan Vincent
- Cesar
- (as Ethan Simpson)
Eddie Martinez
- Ruben Ochoa
- (as J. Eddie Martinez)
Bobby Daniel Rodriguez
- Father Arguedas
- (as Bobby Rodriguez)
J. Santiago Suarez
- Monsignor Rolland
- (as Jay Santiago)
Eliud Garcia Kauffman
- Dr. Gomez
- (as Eliud Kauffman)
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- TriviaAs Julianne Moore is not a trained opera singer, she was coached to lip synch for her singing scenes. Although she has some singing experience, and has sung before in movies, she cannot sing the vocally demanding genre of opera. Reneé Fleming, a soprano, provided the singing voice for Moore.
- Quotes
Comandante Alfredo: Don't worry, they won't shoot.
Roxanne Coss: Are you sure? Not everyone likes opera!
- SoundtracksRusalka: Song to the Moon
(Mesicku na nebi hlubokém)
Written by Antonín Dvorák & Jaroslav Kvapil
Performed by Renée Fleming, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (as The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra)
Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin
February 8, 2014
Courtesy of The Metropolitan Opera
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A few facts: on 17 December 1996, 14 Tupac Amaru guerillas took over the Japanese embassy in Lima, Peru, holding 700 plus people hostage. This total was quickly reduced to 72 hostages. The event lasted 126 days (!), with the result that we all know. Now out of this event, a soggy, inept movie has been made. Paul Weitz has little sense of pace and dramatic effect. The viewer is left thinking 'What does this have to do with anything?' too many times. The hostages have little individuality, are mainly interchangeable; the guerillas have vague motivations that we can only guess at. Julianne Moore and Sebastian Koch have done better work. I had the wish that they had hired Renee Fleming to play the soprano, she would have added a good deal of charm and star quality to this sad effort.
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- bob998
- Apr 2, 2022
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- Бельканто
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- Gross US & Canada
- $125,569
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $12,421
- Sep 16, 2018
- Gross worldwide
- $358,048
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
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