| MUMBAI:
Armed with a Winchester rifle, two Moroccan boys set out to look after their family's
herd of goats. In the silent echoes of the desert, they decide to test the rifle…
but the bullet goes farther than they thought it would and in an instant, the
lives of four separate groups of strangers on three different continents collide.
Watch this powerful story unfold in the Friday Night Premiere Babel on Star Movies,
on July 18 at 9 pm.  Caught
up in the rising tide of an accident that escalates beyond anyone's control, are
an American couple (Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett) vacationing in Morocco, a Moroccan
herder buys a rifle for his sons to keep the jackals away from his herd. Meanwhile
on the other side of the globe, a rebellious deaf girl in Japan deals with rejection
and the death of her mother and a Mexican nanny who without permission, takes
two American children across the border. None of these strangers ever meet, in
spite of the sudden, unlikely connection between them… they all remain isolated
due to their own inability to communicate meaningfully with anyone around them.
4 interlocking
stories, all connected by a single gun… all converge at the end and reveal
a complex and tragic story of the lives of humanity around the world. It shows
how humans truly aren't all that different. From
Alejandro González Iñárritu comes a film that is at once
intimate and epic, shot in four countries, cast with actors and non-actors. The
film concludes his trilogy that started with Amores Perros and 21 Grams. Watch
this powerful film that takes cinematic experience way beyond the realm of the
linear, in the Friday Night Premiere Babel on Star Movies, on July 18 at 9 pm. | 
