Only Elise holds the key to Frank’s and Pearce’s life, as she’s in love with both men. They are searching for stolen money Pearce took. Meanwhile, after given the illusion publicly that Frank is Pearce, Frank doesn’t know what he’s gotten himself into when men with guns are busting his hotel door and looking for him and Elise. What’s a guy to do when a striking beauty flirts with normal scruffy looking dude? It’s not hard at all to go along for the ride. This is where Frank Tupelo (played by Depp) enters the picture as Elise was instructed by Pearce to find a poor sap that looks like him and use to divert attention from the government officials.įrank happens to be a math teacher from Wisconsin and is enchanted when Elise comes on to him aboard a train heading to Venice. Seems they are after her lover, the elusive criminal Alexander Pearce, and when he supposedly sends her letter informing her of where to possibly meet him, the cat and mouse game begins. With a supporting cast that includes Paul Bettany, Rufus Sewell, Timothy Dalton, and Steven Berkoff, the real winners out of this colossal mess is the cinematographer John Seale, who beautifully shot Paris and Venice, and costume designer Colleen Atwood, who dressed Jolie and Depp with gorgeous outfits from head to toe.ĭirected by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, who was the 2006 Foreign Film Oscar winner for ‘The Lives of Others,’ Jolie stars Elise Clifton-Ward, a puzzling Brit who goes about her business in Paris knowing that she’s being tailed by both Interpol agents, Scotland Yard, and others. One would assume the making of a hit, but ‘The Tourist’ is the complete opposite. What do you get when have the biggest male (Johnny Depp) and female star (Angelina Jolie) in one film, backed by an Oscar winning producer, Oscar winning screenwriters, and an Oscar winner costume designer?
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