Sweeping romantic drama of epic proportions. Fiennes's WWII pilot lays badly burned and in the care of an army nurse. As the unnamed, stiff-upper-lipped "English Patient" begins to recover, memories emerge of a past life as an archaeologist/cartographer in the Sahara, and a passionate affair with a married woman, Katharine. Though Anthony Minghella's adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel simplifies, jettisons and changes certain elements of the original story, it remains a rich, complex, entran
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THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (1985)
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A housewife, trapped by a slobbish husband and the economic circumstances of the 1930s, goes to the movies to escape. Then one day a character on the screen steps out into the real world and falls in love with her.... A very clever Woody Allen comedy with a bitter sweet twist.
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