Babel

Drama

Brad Pitt	Richard
Cate Blanchett	Susan
Mohamed Akhzam	Anwar
Peter Wight	Tom
Harriet Walter	Lilly
Trevor Martin	Douglas
Matyelok Gibbs	Elyse
Georges Bousquet	Robert
Claudine Acs	Jane
André Oumansky	Walter

Director	Alejandro González Iñárritu
Producer	Ahmed Abounouom; Steve Golin
Writer	Guillermo Arriaga

4 interlocking stories all connected by a single gun all converge at the end and reveal a complex and tragic story of the lives of humanity around the world and how we truly aren't all that different. In Morocco, a troubled married couple are on vacation trying to work out their differences. Meanwhile, a Moroccan herder buys a rifle for his sons so they can keep the jackals away from his herd. A girl in Japan dealing with rejection, the death of her mother, the emotional distance of her father, her own self-consciousness, and a disability among many other issues, deals with modern life in the enormous metropolis of Tokyo, Japan that is literally the size of the state of California. Then, on the opposite side of the world the married couple's Mexican nanny takes the couple's 2 children with her to her son's wedding in Mexico, only to come into trouble on the return trip. Combined, it provides a powerful story and an equally powerful looking glass into the lives of seemingly random people around the world and it shows just how connected we really are.