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About
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Theatrical
Jan 19, 2007
Box Office
$26.9M
Budget
$19.4M
Return
1.4x
DVD / Blu-ray
May 8, 2007
Director
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Music
Studio
Emotion Pictures, The Mark Gordon Company, Class 5 Films, Warner China Film HG Corporation 中影华纳横店, Stratus Film Co., Bob Yari Productions, The Colleton Company, Dragon Studios, Salon Films, Syndicate Films, Warner Independent Pictures, China Film Co-Production
Quotes
See all →Complex Perspectives on Gratitude and Care
Kitty
They brought in a new baby today. The girls named her Zan Xien.It means "brand-new." The nuns are going to call it Katherine, which, of course... none of the girls will be able to say. Thank goodness for those nuns. They do so much for so little in return.
Walter
I suppose you could look at it that way.
Kitty
You suppose?
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Love and Duty Unite in Grace
Mother Superior
But when love and duty are one, then grace is within you.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Cast
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Edward Norton
Dr. Walter Fane
Naomi Watts
Kitty Fane
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Liev Schreiber
Charlie Townsend
T
Toby Jones
Mr. Waddington
D
Diana Rigg
Mother Superior
A
Anthony Wong
Colonel Yu
X
Xia Yu
Wu Lien
J
Juliet Howland
Dorothy Townsend
L
Li Bin
Te-Ming
Z
Zoe Telford
Leona
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Marie-Laure Descoureaux
Sister St. Joseph
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Maggie Steed
Mrs. Garstin
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Li Feng
Sung Ching
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Alan David
Mr. Garstin
