Great performances from Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins, not so great from Richard Gere but a good supporting cast make this an enjoyable hour and three quarters entertainment. The one character who is neither confused nor mechanical is the honorary consul, played by Michael Caine in an outstanding per- formance. Visiting the town brothel with Saavedra, Plarr is attracted to a girl, Clara, but she is taken by another man. Plarr's mother, once a beauty and now bloated, along with some of his previous mistresses, attends his funeral. His English father remained in Paraguay as a political rebel and, aside from a single hand-delivered letter, they never hear from him again.

The two men try to persuade Plarr to help in a plot to kidnap the American ambassador, who is due to visit the district, and to exchange him for political prisoners held in Paraguay. The movie was filmed on location in Veracruz, Mexico and Mexico City, and at the Shepperton Studios in Surrey, England. Plarr is again summoned to the shack, this time to treat Fortnum for a gunshot wound sustained while trying to flee from a latrine. So many times his mother had used the word when he was a child; it was like the threat of an armed robber. Eduardo Plarr is an unmarried medical doctor of English descent who, as a boy, fled to Buenos Aires with his Paraguayan mother to escape the political turmoil of Paraguay.The Honorary Consul is a much more complicated, mysterious work than one might suspect from this rather literal if quite faithful condensation. On this level the movie succeeds, but there are too many loose ends in the plot and some lackluster performances.

Read all During the Dirty War, a half-English doctor in Argentina befriends the police, the rebels and the alcoholic Honorary British Consul, whose Latino wife he seduces.Retitled from The Honorary Consul and sold in America with one of Paramount’s sleaziest ad campaigns, John MacKenzie and Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of a Graham Greene novel features a fine Michael Caine performance, but prefers to stress sex scenes between star Richard Gere and Elpidia Carrillo. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Now a practicing doctor in a small Argentinian city, Plarr is approached by an old friend who tells him he's working with the Paraguayan underground and a disgraced British counsel (Michael Caine) on a plan to kidnap an ambassador and hold him for ransom in exchange for the release of Parr's father and several other prisoners. The Honorary Consul (released in the US as Beyond The Limit) is a 1983 British drama film directed by John Mackenzie, and starring Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins and Elpidia Carrillo. The film was produced by Norma Heyman, the first British woman to produce a solo independent feature film.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.