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Code 46

MPA Rating: R-Rating (MPA) for a scene of sexuality, including brief graphic nudity.
Moral Rating: not reviewed
Moviemaking Quality:
Primary Audience: Adults
Genre: Sci-Fi Romance Drama
Length: 1 hr. 33 min.
Year of Release: 2004
USA Release: February 12, 2004
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Featuring Tim Robbins
Samantha Morton
Essie Davis
Om Puri
Jeanne Balibar
Director Michael Winterbottom
Producer Andrew Eaton
BBC Film [England]
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Distributor

“How do you solve a crime when the last thing you want to know is the truth?”

Here’s what the distributor says about their film: “‘Code 46’ is a love story set in an eerily possible near-future where cities are heavily controlled and only accessible through checkpoints. People cannot travel unless they have “papelles,” a special travel insurance. Outside cities, the desert has taken over and shanty towns are jammed with non-citizens—people without papelles whose lives are severely restricted.

William (Robbins) is a family man who works as an insurance investigator. When his company sends him to another city to solve a case of fake papelles, he meets a woman named Maria (Morton). Although he knows she’s been creating the forgeries, he falls completely in love with her. He hides her crime and they have a wild, passionate affair that can only last as long as his papelles: 24 hours.

Back home, William is obsessed with the memory of Maria. He tries to see her but is refused the necessary papers to travel. Desperate, he uses one of the fake papelles he kept from his investigation. He eventually tracks her down, only to discover she has been accused of a Code 46 violation.”

Editor’s Note: This film died at the boxoffice and was shown at very few theaters. We do not plan to review it.


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Movie Critics
…Robbins’ and Morton’s chemistry is as dry as the globally warmed-over setting…
E! Online
…intriguing, if seriously flawed, film noir…
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
…never manages to be more than an interesting failure burdened by an uninspired—and to some extent unexplained—relationship at its core…
Glenn Whipp, L.A. Daily News
…Provocative, quietly erotic, deeply romantic, and slyly witty…
Glenn Kenny, Premiere
…“Last Tango” in 2030…
Blake Snyder, MovieWeb

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