Armed with a Winchester rifle, two Morrocan boys set out to look after their family's herd of goats. In the silent echoes of the desert, they decide to test the rifle… but the bullet goes farther than they thought it would. In an instant, the lives of four separate groups of strangers on three different continents collide. Caught up in the rising tide of an accident that escalates beyond anyone's control are a vacationing American couple, a rebellious deaf Japanese teenager and her father, and a Mexican nanny who, without permission, takes two American children across the border. None of these strangers will ever meet; in spite of the sudden, unlikely connection between them, they will all remain isolated due to their own inability to communicate meaningfully with anyone around them.
Production Paramount Pictures (presents); Paramount Vantage (presents); Anonymous Content; Zeta Film [mx]; Central Films [fr]; Media Rights Capital;
Cast Names Brad Pitt; Cate Blanchett; Mohamed Akhzam; Peter Wight; Harriet Walter; Trevor Martin; Matyelok Gibbs; Georges Bousquet; Claudine Acs; André Oumansky; Michael Maloney; Dermot Crowley; Wendy Nottingham; Henry Maratray; Linda Broughton; Jean Marc Hulot; Aline Mowat; Liliane Escoza; Lynsey Beauchamp; Michel Dubois; Shirley Dixon; Patrick Lebre; John O'Mohoney; Mary Mitchell; Edward Lyon; Robert Fyfe; Abdelaziz Merzoug; Omar El Mallouli; El Hassan Ait Bablal; Sfia Ait Benboullah; Hammou Aghrar; Mohamed Ait Lahcen; Ali Hamadi; Lhacen Znin; Mustapha Amhita; Mohammed Amal El Koussi; Mohamed Nait Addi; Mohammed El Bouamraoui; Rahmoune Abdelhalim; Soukayna Ait Boufakri;
Release Date 2006-09-01 (Telluride Film Festival) 2006-10-27 (Los Angeles, California) 2006-10-27 (New York City, New York) 2006-11-05 (Westwood, California) (premiere) 2006-11-10
Genres Drama; Thriller;
MPAA Rating [?] Rated R for violence, some graphic nudity, sexual content,
language and some drug use.