The Intended

The Intended (2002)

Genres - Drama, Romance, Action, Adventure  |   Sub-Genres - Jungle Film, Period Film, Psychological Drama  |   Release Date - Jun 25, 2004 (USA - Limited)  |   Run Time - 110 min.  |   Countries - United Kingdom  |   MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Andrea LeVasseur

Danish filmmaker Kristian Levring directs the Dogme 95-inspired period drama The Intended, co-written by leading lady Janet McTeer. Shot with digital video, the film takes place in the Malaysia jungle during the 1920s. Fortysomething British woman Sarah (McTeer) travels with her younger fiancé, Hamish Winslow (JJ Feild), to a small community near Borneo. Hamish has been hired to survey the land and map a road for a trading post run by a deeply dysfunctional family. The local ruler is tough matriarch Mrs. Jones (Brenda Fricker), who dominates her son William (Tony Maudsley) and nephew Norton (Philip Jackson). When a climate change causes them to become even more isolated, the family tension takes a dark turn. Also starring Olympia Dukakis. The Intended premiered at the 2002 Toronto Film Festival.

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ivory, jungle, land-survey, trading-post