The action is based upon a book by Graham Greene, a morality tale in which Greene shows how a seemingly mild injustice leads to catastrophic consequences for an apparently innocent man.

Plarr initially refuses, but reluctantly agrees when Leon tells him that his father is one of the prisoners. All of this comes together to create problems when he is asked to help revolutionaries kidnap a diplomat. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. When the menu for the film comes up, make sure you look out for the word "Tonformat" on the menu when you want to change the audio setup to English before you start watching the film). The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual.

Army paratroopers surround the hut while the failed priest, Rivas, conducts a makeshift mass inside with the rain coming down. Despite Plarr warning the dissidents that Fortnum has no value to the authorities, the group proceed with their demand for the release of ten political prisoners. As a boy, Eduardo Plarr (Richard Gere) and his mother fled Paraguay after his father was captured and held as a political prisoner. Retitled from The Honorary Consul and sold in America with one of Paramount’s sleaziest ad campaigns, John MacKenzie and Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of a Graham Greene novel features a fine Michael Caine performance, but prefers to stress sex scenes between star Richard Gere and Elpidia Carrillo. He determines that the patient is in no danger from the morphine, but informs Leon that the person they kidnapped is not the American ambassador: he is Fortnum, the British consul.

So many times his mother had used the word when he was a child; it was like the threat of an armed robber. Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote of "the grossly meaningless title that has been attached—like a bathtub to a car—to the screen adaptation of The Honorary Consul, Mr. The movie was filmed on location in Veracruz, Mexico and Mexico City, and at the Shepperton Studios in Surrey, England. Another person the doctor meets is Clara, whom he immediately falls in love with, but there is a problem: Clara is Charley's wife. They intend to ransom the ambassador for the release of political prisoners in Paraguay, including Plarr's father.

Fortnum overhears Plarr telling Leon of his adultery with Clara and saying that he, not Fortnum, is the father of the child that Clara is expecting. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum (Michael Caine), a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep revolution from occurring. As a boy, he was forced to flee his native Paraguay after the arrest and subsequent disappearance of his father, a dissident. Plarr into a showcase for Richard Gere represents a totally inappropriate intrusion of the director into the story's subject matter.