Eastern Promises

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Eastern Promises
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R,1hr 40min
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September 14, 2007
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Focus Features
Synopsis: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and Vincent Cassel star in this David Cronenberg's thriller concerning a London midwife who unwittingly stumbles into a clandestine Russian sex trafficking ring. An unidentified Russian teen has been rushed to a London hospital after going into labor. Though midwife Anna Khitrova (Watts) does manage to deliver a healthy baby girl, the newborn's mother dies tragically during delivery. But the deceased mother's secrets did not die with her, because ... Full Synopsis
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The actors and the characters merge and form a reality above and apart from the story, and the result is a film that takes us beyond crime and London and the Russian mafia and into the mystifying realms of human nature. Full Review
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82
Universal Acclaim
out of 100
Featured Cast
Nikolai Luzhin, Nikolai
Anna, Anna Khitrova
Kirill, Petrid
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Naomi Watts in "Eastern Promises" (Focus Features)
Vincent Cassel in "Eastern Promises" (Focus Features)
Naomi Watts in "Eastern Promises" (Focus Features)
Armin Mueller-Stahl, left, and Naomi Watts in "Eastern Promises" (Focus Features)
"Eastern Promises" (Focus Features)
Vincent Cassel, left, and Viggo Mortensen in "Eastern Promises" (Focus Features)
Viggo Mortensen, left, and Naomi Watts in "Eastern Promises" (Focus Features)
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