Babel /
A wealthy American couple touring Morocco become the focus of an international incident involving a poor Moroccan farmer. A San Diego nanny makes a disastrous decision to take her charges with her to a wedding in Mexico while her employers are absent. A deaf-mute Japanese teen tries to deal with a r...
| Uniform Title: | Babel (Motion picture : 2006) |
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| Other Authors: | , , , , , , , , , |
| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English Arabic Berber (Other) Japanese Spanish |
| Language Notes: | Chiefly English dialogue; also includes Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, Japanese sign language, Berber dialogue with English subtitles. |
| Published: |
[Hollywood, California] :
Paramount Pictures,
[2006]
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Swank Digital Campus) |
| Summary: | A wealthy American couple touring Morocco become the focus of an international incident involving a poor Moroccan farmer. A San Diego nanny makes a disastrous decision to take her charges with her to a wedding in Mexico while her employers are absent. A deaf-mute Japanese teen tries to deal with a relationship with her father and the world in general that has been upended by the death of her mother. |
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| Item Description: | Based on an idea by Guillermo Arriaga and Alejandro González Iñárritu. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2006. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file, 143 min., 21 sec.) : digital sound, color |
| Audience: | Rating: R; for violence, some graphic nudity, sexual content, language and some drug use. |
| Awards: | Academy Award (2006) for Original Score (Santaolalla) ; also nominee including Best Picture, Best Director. |
| Production Credits: | Directed and produced by Alejandro González Iñárritu ; written by Guillermo Arriaga ; produced by Jon Kilik, Steve Golin ; director of photography, Rodrigo Prieto ; edited by Stephen Mirrione, Douglas Crise ; music by Gustavo Santaolalla. |