Babel

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Babel

R

2006

2h 22m

Drama

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An accident connects four groups of people on three different continents: two young Moroccan goatherds, a vacationing American couple (Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett), a deaf Japanese teen and her father, and a Mexican nanny who takes her young charges across a border without parental permission.

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Critics Consensus

In Babel, there are no villains, only victims of fate and circumstance. Director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu weaves four of their woeful stories into this mature and multidimensional film.

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Namrata Joshi

Outlook

01/23/2019

3/4

There are moments when a lot is left unsaid. There's a remarkable stillness and delicacy as the music and images interplay and do all the talking.

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Brian Tallerico

UGO

03/24/2007

The kind of film that will echo deep in your soul.

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Mark Holcomb

Time Out

02/03/2007

2/6

Alejandro González Iñárritu's latest sprawling, dispersed art-film blockbuster prompts a question: Does he just not know how to tell a story?

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Josh Slater-Williams

Vague Visages

11/14/2023

Babel is Crash with delusions of global grandeur; a film that masquerades as a sweeping, humanistic epic, but is instead an ultimately hammy, superficial and miserablist game of connect-the-dots.

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Murtada Elfadl

Sundays with Cate

03/04/2022

B

Blanchett and Pitt are playing a version of the "ugly Americans abroad" trope. The film does not shy away from presenting them as entitled despite the circumstances that they are in.

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Catherine Springer

CathsFilmForum.com

07/11/2021

Unlike Crash, where the characters felt like cartoons and stereotypes, these characters are fleshed out and real, and the performances are first-rate, with a performance from Brad Pitt that is his most mature work.

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Fran F

@RT88516516 May 26

I watched it because I love cate blanchett but it was overall too graphic violently for me and just sad. It's a part of the world that I never want to visit and breaks my heart to see such poverty and despair. Little kids running around with guns and it just was not a feel good movie. I had the feeling it was going to be like that but again I love cate blanchett. I recently saw her in Missing with Tommy Lee Jones as well because I also love him! The same thing. But she is one tough actress!!

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Andrea S

@dreaaaaa Feb 25

Got Brad Pitt to get views, unnecessary sex scenes and it only has some meaning if you create it yourself. Basically soft porn trying to be deep

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Anderson A

@Anderson47474 Feb 13

Dos melhores filmes do Brad Pitt apesar da atuação da japonesa e a mexicana ofuscarem dele, filme todo interligado através de um rifle e mostra como cada cultura trata as situações, cena na menina e o pai na varanda é a mais emocionante. 8.7

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Pamela C.

@pamakarma Jan 11

Great movie...how we are all connected, but at the same time we are all apart, separated by language and distance. This shows humans at their best...and their worst.

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John P

@Juan_loves_Jaws Dec 29

Very depressing movie with a negative view of life. Perfect if you love to wallow in misery and self-pity.

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Jerry F.

@RT91593206 Dec 27

Exciting film perfectly named.

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Synopsis

An accident connects four groups of people on three different continents: two young Moroccan goatherds, a vacationing American couple (Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett), a deaf Japanese teen and her father, and a Mexican nanny who takes her young charges across a border without parental permission.

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Producer: Steve Golin, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik
Screenwriter: Guillermo Arriaga
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Paramount Vantage, Zeta Film, Central Films, Paramount Pictures, Media Rights Capital (MRC), Dune, StudioCanal, Anonymous Content
Rating: R (Sexual Content|Language|Some Drug Use|Some Graphic Nudity|Violence)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 10, 2006, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 15, 2011
Box Office (Gross USA): $34.3M
Runtime: 2h 22m