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The City of Your Final Destination is about a young American academic, Omar Razaghi (Metwally), who attempts to persuade the reluctant heirs of a celebrated Uruguayan novelist, Jules Gund, to allow him to write an authorized biography of the writer, who has recently died. Undeterred by the executors' adamant refusal, and urged on by his vehemently ambitious girlfriend (Lara), another academic, Razaghi turns up uninvited on the family's doorstep in a remote corner of Uruguay, hoping to change their minds. Before long, he is joined there by his super-efficient girlfriend, Deirdre.
The Gund family, living in two big rundown houses on an overgrown, steamy estancia named "Ocho Rios," reacts to the intrusion in different ways. The writer's widow Caroline Gund (an unusually acerbic Laura Linney) stubbornly states with every breath that she will never, never give her permission. The writer's brother Adam Gund (Hopkins) has a contrary opinion: a biography can only help to keep the writer's name before a book-buying public. The writer's young mistress Arden Langdon (Gainsbourg) at sides with Caroline. Then, as she begins to fall for Omar -- or is she succumbing only to the charm of someone, anyone, new? -- she changes her mind. Two further supporters of Omar are Gund's ten-year-old daughter Portia, and Pete, Adam's practical-minded companion (Sanada).
How Omar comes in time to have his wish granted, and the effect of that on his future, makes up the plot of this film about the random nature of love and the ways in which we avoid or confront life's choices.
Original Release
03/21/2009
US Release
03/21/2009
Cast
Name | Character |
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Nicholas Blandullo | Young Adam |
Sofia Viruboff | Adam's Mother |
James Martin | Postman |
Omar Metwally | Omar Razaghi |
Alexandra Maria Lara | Deirdre Rothemund |
Susana Salerno | Helpful Woman at the Bus Depot |
César Bordón | Helpful Man at the Bus Depot |
Diego Velázquez | Helpful Little Boy at the Bus Depot |
Rossana Gabbiano | Helpful Woman at the Bus Depot |
Julieta Vallina | Schoolbus Lady |
Directors
Writers
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Peter Cameron
Cast
Name | Character |
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Nicholas Blandullo | Young Adam |
Sofia Viruboff | Adam's Mother |
James Martin | Postman |
Omar Metwally | Omar Razaghi |
Alexandra Maria Lara | Deirdre Rothemund |
Susana Salerno | Helpful Woman at the Bus Depot |
César Bordón | Helpful Man at the Bus Depot |
Diego Velázquez | Helpful Little Boy at the Bus Depot |
Rossana Gabbiano | Helpful Woman at the Bus Depot |
Julieta Vallina | Schoolbus Lady |
Ambar Mallman | Portia Gund |
Charlotte Gainsbourg | Arden Langdon |
Laura Linney | Caroline / Caroline Gund |
Norma Aleandro | Alma / Mrs. Van Euwen |
Hector Fonseca | Old Gaucho |
Anthony Hopkins | Adam / Adam Gund |
Hiroyuki Sanada | Pete |
Oscar Rolleri | Young Gacho |
Arturo Goetz | Mrs. Van Euwen's Guest |
Marcos Montes | Mrs. Van Euwen's Guest |
Producers
Name | Role |
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James Martin | Executive Producer |
Ashok Amritraj | Executive Producer |
Vincent Mai | Executive Producer |
Katsuhiko Yoshida | Executive Producer |
Paul Bradley | Producer |
Diana Frey | Producer |
Richard Hawley | Producer |
Paul Lowerre | Producer |
Ursula Lowerre | Producer |
Susan Malick | Producer |
Gretchen McGowan | Producer |
Simon Oxley | Producer |
Pierre Proner | Producer |
Kai Wong | Producer |