
Beyond Borders is an epic tale of the turbulent romance between two star-crossed lovers set against the backdrop of the world's most dangerous hot spots. Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars as Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984. She is married to Henry Bauford, son of a wealthy British industrialist. When she encounters Nick Callahan a renegade doctor, whose impassioned plea for help to support his relief efforts in war-torn Africa moves her deeply. As a... (Full plot summary below)
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Beyond Borders is an epic tale of the turbulent romance between two star-crossed lovers set against the backdrop of the world's most dangerous hot spots. Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars as Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984. She is married to Henry Bauford, son of a wealthy British industrialist. When she encounters Nick Callahan a renegade doctor, whose impassioned plea for help to support his relief efforts in war-torn Africa moves her deeply. As a result, Sarah embarks upon a journey of discovery that leads to danger, heartbreak and romance in the far corners of the world.
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| Film BlatherEugene NovikovAn idiotic love story with a backdrop of three different countries all containing starving people, Angelina Jolie's humanitarian vanity project is long, ridiculous, and morally repulsive to boot, a capital-I Issue in search of a story. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekThis slickly superficial epic ultimately degrades the important subject it cavalierly employs as mere background for its centerpiece romance...crass and meretricious. |
| Worcester Telegram & GazetteDaniel M. KimmelBeyond Borders trivializes the pain and suffering of actual people by reducing them to a backdrop for Hollywood twaddle. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldIts heart is in the right place, and it doesn't flinch an iota from its duty of rubbing our faces in the horror of the Third World over the past two decades. |
| Good Morning AmericaJoel SiegelAngelina, here's something to remember next time: It's better to tell us one story that makes us feel than a thousand stories that make us numb. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenFalls short as both entertainment and enlightenment. |
| Eclipse MagazineSean O'ConnellGoes beyond the vanity project you'd think it to be. |
| Salon.comStephanie ZacharekHas a TV Movie of the Week righteousness about it -- you can feel the way the filmmakers and the director are struggling to educate us, even as they must surely know, deep in their hearts, that the florid, doomed romance is the real focus of the movie. |
| About.comRebecca MurrayWhat starts out with an interesting premise quickly deteriorates into a cockeyed political statement. |
| Journal News (Westchester, NY)Marshall FineThe idea of people from the West, previously indifferent, who immerse themselves in sickness and war in an effort to make a difference has been explored less melodramatically in an ongoing story arc on TV's E.R. |