Babel
By: Paramount Pictures and Paramount Vantage present an Anonymous Content production, una produccíon de Zeta Film, a Central Films production ; directed and produced by Alejandro González Iñárritu ; written by Guillermo Arriaga ; produced by Jon Kilik, Steve Golin
Contributors: Arriaga Jordán, Guillermo, 1958-; Pitt, Brad, 1963-; Blanchett, Cate, 1969-; García, Gael; Yakusho, Kōji; Barraza, Adriana, 1956-; Kikuchi, Rinko, 1981-; Anonymous Content (Firm); Central Films (France); Films de la Dune Rose; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Zeta Films; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
Edition: Widescreen ed.
Publisher: Paramount Home Entertainment
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Hollywood, Calif
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9781415728550
Subjects: Tourists; Drama; Americans; Farmers; Firearms; Nannies; Deaf; Fathers and daughters; Communication; Action and adventure films
Work titles: Babel (Motion picture : 2006)
Description: A wealthy American is touring Morocco with his wife. The two become the focus of an international incident also involving a poor Moroccan farmer who is struggling to keep his two young sons in line and his family together. A San Diego nanny, with her employers absent, makes the disastrous decision to take her charges with her to a wedding in Mexico. A deaf-mute Japanese teen tries to deal with a relationship with her father and the world in general that has been upended by the death of her mother. It's about a gun. It's about communication - or the lack of it - both intercultural and intracultural. Raises issues like terrorism and immigration, and is as basic as husbands talking to their wives and parents understanding their children.
Notes: Based on the idea by Guillermo Arriaga and Alejandro González Iñárritu.

Director of photography, Rodrigo Prieto ; edited by Stephen Mirrione, Douglas Crise ; music by Gustavo Santaolalla ; costume designer, Michael Wilkinson ; production designer, Brigitte Broch ; visual effects supervisor, Lon Molnar.

Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Koji Yakusho, Adriana Barraza, Rinko Kikuchi.

MPAA rating: R; for violence, some graphic nudity, sexual content, language and some drug use. adam

DVD, region 1, widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital.

Closed-captioned.

Dialogue in English with optional soundtrack in French, and with optional subtitles in English or Spanish.

Cannes Film Festival for Best Director, 2006, Alejandro González Iñárritu ; Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Alejandro González Iñárritu) ; Technical Grand Prize (Stephen Mirrione)