City of Your Final Destination (The)
- Director: James Ivory
- Writer: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; Peter Cameron
- Producer: Ashok Amritraj; Paul Bradley
CGiii Comment
Strangely miscast - a plodding, implausible story with wooden performances.
Not the Merchant/Ivory of yesteryear.
Hopkins plays an old, gay, failed writer with as much relish as a stripped down sandwich.
Gainsbourg is a plank of wood.
The mystery is...why this was even considered to be made - the book was as dull as a nun's habit and the film offers no improvement.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund--his brother, widow, and younger mistress--so he can get authorization to write the biography.
Cast & Characters
Anthony Hopkins as Adam;
Omar Metwally as Omar Razaghi;
Laura Linney as Caroline;
Charlotte Gainsbourg as Arden Langdon;
Hiroyuki Sanada as Pete;
Norma Aleandro as Mrs. Van Euwen;
Alexandra Maria Lara as Deirdre;
Norma Argentina as Alma;
Eliot Mathews as Deirdre's Escort