The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)

US:: PG Drama Romance

The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge.[ A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928.

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2005-06-10

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Runtime: 120 mins Rating: 5.2 Tag Line: Five lives bound by one fate. Homepage: Website

Cast

Robert De Niro

Archbishop of Peru

Geraldine Chaplin

The Abbess

Harvey Keitel

Uncle Pio

F. Murray Abraham

Viceroy of Peru

Dominique Pinon

His Excellency's Fop

Gabriel Byrne

Brother Juniper

Kathy Bates

The Marquesa

Émilie Dequenne

Doña Clara