MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guy Jenkin
Genres: Romance
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Guy_Jenkin directs this straight-to-video romantic drama shot on-location in Malaysia. In the rainforests of Boreno in the 1930s, English officer John Truscott (Hugh_Dancy) accepts a position to colonize the native population of Sarawak at the request of the British government. In following with the native tradition, he is given the services of a servant, Selima (Jessica_Alba). A position that British officers refer to as a "sleeping dictionary," she is a concubine to share his bed and teach him the local language. The tradition forbids romantic entanglements, so the relationship is watched over by superior officer Henry Bullard (Bob_Hoskins) and his wife, Aggie (Brenda_Blethyn). When Selima and John fall madly in love, they enrage both the colonizers and the colonized. Also starring Emily_Mortimer and Noah_Taylor. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

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