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A Hologram for the King

2016, Movie, 1h 37min

Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.

"A Hologram for the King" — drama and comedy movie produced in USA, Switzerland, France, Mexico, Cayman Islands and Germany and released in 2016. It has a good rating on IMDb: 6.1 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 1h 37min. "A Hologram for the King" is not currently available to stream in India. Save it and we'll notify you when it's available! Make sure to turn on push notifications as well.

Country: United States,Switzerland,France,Mexico,Cayman Islands,Germany

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Reviews

Critic Keith Uhlich

...a mordant study of 21st-century big business in the guise of a fish-out-of-water comedy.

Read full review at The A.V. Club

Critic Nick Allen

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Hanks remains a great everyman, which means here he can be a wonderful outsider, a surrogate into our realizations or failures.

Read full review at Roger Ebert

Critic Jonathan Pile

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...plays out like a relocated Lost In Translation. Both films centre on a main character whose personal life is falling apart, who find it tricky to adjust to the foreign cultures they find themselves in...

Read full review at Empire

Critic Marjorie Baumgarten

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Hanks is perfect in the central role, drawing on both his dramatic and comic acting skills.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

Critic Mark Kermode

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Alexander Black makes some dramatic headway as Alan’s driver-cum-guide Yousef, while Sarita Choudhury breathes life into blossoming romantic subplot which proves the film’s most intriguing feature.

Read full review at The Guardian

Critic Lise Ulrich

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Der er en overraskende skønhed i ’A Hologram for the King’, der langsomt sniger sig ind på en undervejs i Alans ørkenvandring, ikke mindst i skildringerne af landets almindelige borgere og deres hverdag.

Read full review at Soundvenue

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A Hologram for the King is a movie about a struggling American businessman named Alan Clay who is sent to Saudi Arabia by his company to sell a holographic teleconferencing system project to the Saudi government for a lot of money. He is also trying to recover from a financially messy divorce and the layoff of hundreds of employees. While there, he meets with some Saudi locals and starts to develop feelings for a Saudi doctor named Zahra. However, his attempts to do business with the Saudis are thwarted by Middle Eastern bureaucracy and a perpetually absent monarch, and he also becomes suspicious of a growth on his back that he gets checked out at a local hospital. Ultimately, it is implied that the Saudi government had always intended to do business with the Chinese instead of him, and he returns home after the presentation is given.

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