Top billed cast

1. 

   Edward Norton

   Dr. Walter Fane

2. 

   Naomi Watts

   Kitty Fane

3. 

   Liev Schreiber

   Charlie Townsend

4. 

   Toby Jones

   Mr. Waddington

5. 

   Diana Rigg

   Mother Superior

6. 

   Anthony Wong Chau-Sang

   Colonel Yu

7. 

   Xia Yu

   Wu Lien

8. 

   Juliet Howland

   Dorothy Townsend

9. 

   Ian Renwick

   Geoffrey Denison

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Reviews

A review by Peter McGinn

Written by Peter McGinn on 2021-01-09

This movie seemed vaguely familiar to my wife like we had seen it before, but it all seemed new to me when we recently watched it. We both enjoyed it. I wasn’t concerned when a few reviews remarked that it moved slowly, as we have always appreciated movies that build a quiet story carefully, and mostly this one did that.

My only criticism is that at the outset of the movie, I didn’t quite believe that Walter was in love with Kitty. He said he was, but I wonder if a scene or two showing him falling for her ended up on the cutting room floor. He merely seemed to stalk her around the party...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$19,400,000.00

Revenue
$26,910,847.00

Keywords

• infidelity
• china
• based on novel or book
• shanghai, china
• nun
• cholera
• foreign aid
• doctor
• epidemic
• convent (nunnery)
• loveless marriage
• 1920s
• bacteriologist