3/28/2023 0 Comments Sleeping dictionaries![]() ![]() I'm generally leery of movies that are subjected to these sorts of delays. The urge to return to Salawak to continue his work proves too strong to resist, but unfortunately for the newlyweds, other temptations are also irresistable. Reluctantly, John is shipped back to England a free man, where he marries Bullard's anthropologist daughter (Emily Mortimer). Selima is jailed, and John stands accused of murder if he doesn't fall in line. John replies that there's no need to flee - he knows his own people, and he'll make the proper arrangements. When John proposes to her, Selima excitedly accepts and asks where they're going to run. The side effect is, predictably, that he and Selima fall madly in love. John eventually succumbs, and Bullard was right: he quickly adapts to the Iban language and culture. ![]() Raised to believe that sex before marriage isn't the domain of a proper Englishman, his reluctance makes life difficult for both of them. ![]() Selima (Jessica Alba Dark Angel) offers her services as a tutor, which the uptight John declines. As John's contract forbids him from marrying for three years, the sleeping dictionary can provide other sorts of education as well. The thought is that language can be most quickly learned in the bedroom, and John needs to have a strong command of the local language within six months. His commanding officer Henry Bullard (Bob Hoskins)) offers a time-tested solution: a sleeping dictionary. He hopes to implement his late father's plan to educate the native people, but the language barrier between John and the Ibans is just one stumbling block he has to overcome before he's taken seriously. John Truscott (Hugh Dancy Black Hawk Down) is a young Englishman who travels to the Malaysian state of Sarawak in 1936. Apparently a theatrical run just wasn't in the cards, and The Sleeping Dictionary is now making its way directly to home video. Filming wrapped on the $15 million production in the summer of 2000, but its release date was bumped around as Fine Line tried to squeeze the movie into their schedule without cannibalizing its other releases. The Sleeping Dictionary wasn't quite so lucky. Knockaround Guys languished on their shelves for a couple months shy of two years, and if not for the success that stars Vin Diesel ( The Fast and the Furious, xXx) and Seth Green ( Austin Powers) enjoyed in the interim, it may never have gotten a theatrical release at all. Later this month, New Line is bringing two long-delayed movies to DVD. ![]()
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