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  • The English Patient
  • Opened November 6, 1996
  • NR
  • Information for parents: Common Sense Media says OK for kids 16+. Read More
  • The sweeping expanses of the Sahara are the setting for a passionate love affair in this adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel. A badly burned man, Laszlo de Almasy (Ralph Fiennes), is tended to by a nurse, Hana (Juliette Binoche), in an Italian Read More
  • Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews
  • Director: Anthony Minghella
  • Genres: Romantic Adventure, Period Film, War Romance, Drama, Romantic Epic, Romance

The English Patient Recent Fan Reviews

  • Must Go!

    one of those BIG movies ever!

    by gataca

    spectacular in every sense...!

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The English Patient Critic Reviews

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  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Peter Stack

    A mesmerizing film that is the most stunning, tempestuous love story in a...

  • 100
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Awash in heart-rending emotions and gorgeous images, this is a movie to lose...

  • 100
    Washington Post | Rita Kempley

    A tour de force so haunting that other films can't exorcise the memory of its...

  • 100
    The New York Times | Elvis Mitchell

    A stunning feat of literary adaptation as well as a purely cinematic triumph.

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