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The Killing Fields

1984, Movie, R, 141 mins

KILLING FIELDS, THE
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Director Roland Joffe and screenwriter Bruce Robinson's deeply moving film is the somewhat-fictionalized story of New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg (Sam Waterston) and his efforts to find his friend Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor) after the Cambodian translator falls into the hands of the brutal Khmer Rouge. Ngor, a Cambodian physician whose real-life experiences were similar to those of the character he plays, gives sincere, heartrending performance that is the film's emotional core. Read the complete review for The Killing Fields
The true story of how a Cambodian interpreter (Haing S. Ngor) to an American journalist fought to survive the country's brutal Communist dictatorship.
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Posted: 8/1/2008
Based on New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg's relationship with native assistant Dith Pran in 1970s war-torn Cambodia. Gripping and realistic!
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Length: 02:25
Posted: 3/17/2008
Winner of 3 Academy Awards! A New York Times reporter and his Cambodian aide are harrowingly trapped in Cambodia's 1975 Khmer Rouge revolution. Sam Waterston, John Malkovich and Haing S. Ngor (Best Supporting Actor Oscar and Golden Globe winner) star in this shattering true story.
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Length: 02:21:54
Posted: 3/23/2008
A photographer is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody "Year Zero" cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million "undesirable" civilians.
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Length: 02:22:00
Posted: 8/18/2008
Year: 1984
Rated R

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Cast
Sam Waterston: Sydney Schanberg
Haing S. Ngor: Dith Pran
John Malkovich: Al Rockoff
Julian Sands: Jon Swain
Craig T. Nelson: Military Attache
Spalding Gray: US Consul

 

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