Based on the idea by Guillermo Arriaga and Alejandro Gonz�alez I�n�arritu.

Director of photography, Rodrigo Prieto ; edited by, Stephen Mirrione ; music by, Gustavo Santaolalla ; costume designer, Michael Wilkinson ; production designer, Brigitte Broch ; visual effects supervisor, Lon Molnar.

Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garc�ia Bernal, Koji Yakusho, Adriana Barraza, Rinko Kikuchi, Mustapha Rachidi.

A wealthy American is touring Morocco with his wife. The two become the focus of an international incident also involving a poor Moroccan farmer who is struggling to keep his two young sons in line and his family together. A San Diego nanny, with her employers absent, makes the disastrous decision to take her charges with her to a wedding in Mexico. A deaf-mute Japanese teen tries to deal with a relationship with her father and the world in general that has been upended by the death of her mother. It's about a gun. It's about communication--or the lack of it--both intercultural and intracultural. Raises issues like terrorism and immigration, and is as basic as husbands talking to their wives and parents understanding their children.

MPAA rating: R; for violence, some graphic nudity, sexual content, language and some drug use.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital.

Closed-captioned.

Chiefly English dialogue; also includes Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, Japanese sign language, Berber, with optional soundtrack in French; subtitles in English or Spanish; closed-captioned.

Cannes Film Festival for Best Director, 2006, Alejandro Gonz�alez I�n�arritu ; Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Alejandro Gonz�alez I�n�arritu) ; Technical Grand Prize (Stephen Mirrione)