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The painted veil, Warner Independent Pictures and Bob Yari Production ; Yari Film Groups releasing ; the Mark Gordon Company presents ; a Collector Company Class 5 Films ; Dragon Studios Production ; a Warner China Film HG Corporation Co-Production ; produced by Sara Colleton [and others] ; screenplay by Ron Nyswaner ; directed by John Curran

eng

videorecording

MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature sexual situations, partial nudity, disturbing images and brief drug content

The painted veil

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Warner Independent Pictures and Bob Yari Production ; Yari Film Groups releasing ; the Mark Gordon Company presents ; a Collector Company Class 5 Films ; Dragon Studios Production ; a Warner China Film HG Corporation Co-Production ; produced by Sara Colleton [and others] ; screenplay by Ron Nyswaner ; directed by John Curran

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Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them purpose in one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth

Special features: Widescreen version presented in a "letterbox" format -- Language: English Dolby surround 5.1 -- Subtitles (feature film only): English, French, Spanish

general

live action