From the classic novel by Graham Greene comes a murder mystery centered on a love triangle set against the French Indochina War in Vietnam. Phillip Noyce’s THE QUIET AMERICAN (2002, 1h 41min) tells the story of a veteran English journalist (Michael Caine), a young American (Brendan Fraser), and a beautiful Vietnamese woman caught between them. This is a world where nothing is what it seems — suffused with opium, intrigue, and betrayal. THE QUIET AMERICAN is a lovely little mover, barely breaking into a sweat as it dances its dreadful dance of love and need to the backing tune of political unrest, moral ambiguity and subterfuge.