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A 2005 film, based on a book by [[John Le Carre]].
Justin Quayle ([[Ralph Fiennes]]), a British diplomat and horticulture enthusiast living in Kenya, is informed that his activist wife Tessa ([[Rachel Weisz]]) was found dead in the veld, murdered along her driver. Shaken up by this, Justin begins to investigate how and why his beloved wife was killed. But as he investigates the circumstances around her murder, Justin not only finds a terrifying conspiracy from a Pharmaceutic company using the locals as unwilling test subjects, but also evidence that his wife may not have loved him the way he always thought she has...
This film is beautifully and artfully filmed, and plenty of the [[Camera Tricks]] are put in play at some point. But between the [[Flash Back
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* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Sir Bernard Pellegrin, Head of FCO Africa desk, and one of Justin's bosses. Quite apart from being one of the highest-ranking conspirators, the letter he wrote to Sandy (in response to Tessa's findings) reveals just how unpleasant he really is under his genteel exterior: in particular, he refers to Tessa as "your resident harlot."
* [[Can't Stop the Signal]]
* [[Chocolate Baby]]: teased - in fact Tessa is just nursing another woman's baby.▼
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Tim Donohue.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]:
* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]:
* [[Dude Magnet]]: Tessa
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: How the conspiracy plans to spin Justin's death
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* [[Exact Eavesdropping]]: "a marriage of convenience that only produces dead children" - well, you can't blame him for [[Poor Communication Kills|misinterpreting]] ''that''.
* [[Government Conspiracy]]
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* [[How We Got Here]]
* [[Inelegant Blubbering]]: Ham accuses himself of this, especially after Tessa's death.
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