British diplomatic follies in a newly independent African colony called Kinjanja. Smooth sailing along well-paved roads -- Evelyn Waugh Bouvelard, Joyce Cary Avenue -- with some lengthy dips into low comedy. Indeed the same director, Bruce Beresford, travelled much the same itinerary in Mister Johnson (and in the company of the same scriptwriter, William Boyd, there adapting one of Joyce Cary's novels, here adapting one of his own), though without the stomach-bouncing dips. Sean Connery, in a supporting part as an idealistic M.D., looms as a titan of virtue over a mob of satirical pygmies, sportingly played by the likes of Colin Friels, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, John Lithgow, Diana Rigg, and Lou Gossett, Jr. (1994) — Duncan Shepherd
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