It's the McCarthy era in Hollywood and screenwriter Peter Appleton is a predictably ambitious man, but when he is blacklisted for a communist connection in the past his life takes a nosedive. Depressed and confused Peter crashes into a torrential river and is saved by the inhabitants of the sleepy little town of Lawson, who welcome him home as missing in action hero, Luke Trimble. Luke/Peter sets about rekindling the small town's cinema 'The Majestic', but with the FBI closing in and the memory
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THE QUIET AMERICAN (2002)
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Thomas Fowler is a British journalist reporting from 1950's Vietnam (just as the troubles there escalate from France's colonial desperation to America's genocidal idealism), and a man who has lost his passion for the world. Into this cynical and complacent western community arrives young Pyle, a naive and optimistic American medical worker, whose motives are more convoluted than they at first appear. These two men are drawn together by a shared passion for Thomas's mistress, Phoung, a beautiful
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