The City of Your Final Destination
2009 · Movie · PG-13 · 114 min · ★ 5.7 · 46% critics
A young academic travels to a remote South American estate to seek permission to write a famous author's biography. As he navigates a household shaped by grief, rivalry, and attraction, his professional mission becomes tangled with the lives and emotions of the people still guarding the writer's legacy.
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Details
- Years
- 2009
- Release date
- 2009-03-21
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 46/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.7/10 (58 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy quiet, literary relationship dramas in the vein of The White Countess or Surviving Picasso; Not for you if you want brisk pacing, big plot turns, or easy emotional payoffs.
Pros: elegant atmosphere; strong ensemble cast; thoughtful character drama | Cons: very slow pacing; uneven lead performance; thin dramatic payoff
Themes
- based on novel or book
- graduation
- uruguay
Cast & crew
Omar Metwally
as Omar Razaghi
Anthony Hopkins
as Adam Gund
Laura Linney
as Caroline Gund
Charlotte Gainsbourg
as Arden Langdon
Alexandra Maria Lara
as Deirdre Rothemund
Hiroyuki Sanada
as Pete
Norma Aleandro
as Mrs. Van Euwen
- NB
Nicholas Blandullo
as Young Adam
Sofía Viruboff
as Adam's Mother
Norma Argentina
as Alma
Directed by James Ivory