During the Second World War, Eric Lomax is a British officer who is captured by the Japanese in Singapore and sent to a Japanese POW camp, where he is forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway north of the Malay Peni… See more

• Colin Firth as Eric Lomax
• Nicole Kidman as Patricia Lomax (née Wallace)
• Stellan Skarsgård as Finlay
• Hiroyuki Sanada as Takashi Nagase … See more

While he was working on the screenplay, co-writer Frank Cottrell Boyce travelled to Berwick-upon-Tweed in Northumberland with Firth to meet 91-year-old Lomax. Firth said of the film: "I think what is not often addressed … See more

The film grossed $4,415,429 in the US, and $17,882,455 outside internationally, for a combined gross of $22,297,884.
On Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, the film has a 67% approval rating based on 128 revi… See more