Constant Gardener, The
Plot Summary:
From Fernando Meirelles,
the Academy Award-nominated director of "City of God", comes a gripping new film
that sweeps audiences along one man’s emotional and global journey to uncover
the truth behind a personal loss and a worldwide conspiracy.
In a remote area of
Northern Kenya, the region’s most dedicated activist, the brilliant and
passionate Tessa Quayle (Rachel Weisz), has been found brutally murdered.
Tessa’s traveling companion, a local doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and
the evidence points to a crime of passion. Sandy Woodrow (Danny Huston),
Sir Bernard Pellegrin (Bill Nighy), and other members of the British High
Commission assume that Tessa’s widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious
colleague Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes), will leave the matter to their
discretion. They could not be more wrong…
This career diplomat’s
equilibrium
has been exploded by the loss of the woman he was deeply devoted to. They
were opposites whose attraction sustained a marriage, the memories of which now
spur Justin to take decisive action for the first time in his life and
diplomatic career. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumours of his wife’s
infidelities, Justin surprises himself by plunging headlong into a dangerous
odyssey. Determined to clear his wife’s name and "finish what she
started", Justin embarks on a crash course to learn about the pharmaceutical
industry, whose crimes Tessa was on the verge of uncovering, and journeys across
two continents in search of the truth. His eyes are soon opened to a vast
conspiracy at once deadly and commonplace, one that has claimed innocent lives
– and is about to put his own at risk.
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Official Website:
http://www.theconstantgardener.com/
Starring: Ralph Fiennes (Justin Quayle), Rachel Weisz (Tessa Quayle), Hubert Koundé (Arnold Bluhm), Danny Huston (Sandy Woodrow), Daniele Harford (Miriam), Bill Nighy (Sir Bernard Pellegrin), Keith Pearson (Porter Coleridge)
After Tessa’s death, Justin goes on a quest to find out what happened and what she had been doing before she died. Turns out DHS (a big pharmaceutical company) and and another company, Three Bees, had partnered up together and had been testing a drug called Dypraxa on women in Kenya with tuberculosis. It is supposed to be effective against tuberculosis and will make big bucks for DHS, but a big side effect of the drug is that Dypraxa also kills people and DHS doesn’t want anyone to know that and they do not intend to report it. The investigation leads him to Pellegrin, the British High Commissioner who protects the partnership between DHS and Three Bees. Turns out it was Pellegrin who ordered Tessa to be killed (he had also wrote a threatening letter to Sandy about killing Tessa) because she got too involved and knew too much. Her death made it appear she was having an affair with Arnold, but Justin later finds out Arnold was gay. Justin learns there’s a contract on him, so he decides to go to Loki (where Tessa was killed). There, he finds Dr. Marcus Lorbeer (Pete Postlethwaite) - the same doctor whom he saw in the Kenya hospital where Tessa lost their baby. He had been the one giving out the drugs to the dying woman, Kilulu - who was sent to Loki by DHS. Justin finds out he has a copy of Tessa’s report and the letter Pellegrin sent to Sandy. Lorbeer gives him the report and letter. Justin then mails them to Tessa’s cousin, Arthur Hammond (Richard McCabe) and goes to the same location in the desert where Tessa died. When he arrives there, he imagines talking to Tessa, telling her he now knows all her secrets and wished she could’ve trusted them. He tells her she was his home, and he’ll be coming home soon. The film then cuts to a funeral service in a Church. Pellegrin is giving Justin’s eulogy, talking about how he killed himself at the same place Tessa died. He says some nice things about Justin and Tessa. Arthur then takes walks up and reads Pellegrin’s letter out loud. The letter reveals Pellegrin’s involvement with the Dypraxa conspiracy and how he threatened to kill Tessa. He also says Justin was killed by 3 different guns. Pellegrin walks out while Arthur is still reading the letter. Film cuts back to Justin sitting in the desert. A truck arrives. He turns to face 3 men with guns, most likely hired by DHS to finish the job. He turns his back towards them and closes his eyes, with a peaceful look on his face.
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