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The Sheltering Sky

The Sheltering Sky

6,5 /10 (299 Votes)
1990 EN 138 min

Overview

An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.

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Release date

25/10/1990

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299

Popularity

1.9

A woman's dangerous and erotic journey...

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Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

138 min

Budget

$25,000,000

Revenue

$2,075,084

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2025-02-15

⭐ 6

When “Kit” (Debra Winger) and her husband “Port” (John Malkovich) realise that their relationship is running out of steam, they decide to head into the Moroccan desert and rejuvenate their lives. Things don’t quite get off to the start he’d want though as he quickly finds himself in an erotic knocking shop complete with noisy chickens whilst befriended by the rather sexually ambiguous and sweaty “Eric” (Timothy Spall) and his frugal mother (Jill Bennett). They have their uses, though, as his wife and their friend “George” (Campbell Scott) have headed into the interior and he wants to pursue. I…

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