The Four Feathers

[2002, Movie]

The Four Feathers: Review

This new adaptation of A.E.W. Mason's 1902 adventure novel isn't as good as the 1939 version but has its revisionist virtues. Many of the late Victorian era's prejudices — colonialism good, dark-skinned people not-so-good — were second nature to Mason, and Shekhar Kapur (in conjunction with co-scripters Michael Schiffer and Hossein Amini) takes those implicit attitudes and moves them front and center, where they belong. The question is whether a contemporary audienc... read more

The Four Feathers: Cast & Details

Year: 2002
Rated PG-13

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Cast
Heath Ledger: Harry Feversham
Wes Bentley: Jack Durrance
Kate Hudson: Ethne Eustace
Djimon Hounsou: Abou Fatma
Michael Sheen: Trench
Kris Marshall: Castelton

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The Four Feathers: TV Guide News

Heath Ledger: A Career Cut Short | A Beautiful Fraud | 1/23/2008
Not long before 3:35 pm on January 22, 2008, the short life and promising career of actor Heath Ledger came to a sudden, tragic end. It was around this time that Ledger's housekeeper and his masseuse discovered the body of the Australian-born actor in the bedroom of the Broome Street apartment he'd been renting in lower Manhattan. Ledger was not yet 29 years old.News of Ledger's death came as a terrible shock to nearly everyone, even though it now seems the low-key, Oscar-nominated actor had been privately battling his own demons for quite some time. His passing is the terrible surprise ending no one saw coming, an abrupt finale to a life and career that seemed to be all about the unexpected.Born and raised in Perth, Australia, and named after the darkly romantic anti-hero from Wuthering Heights (he has a sister named Katherine), Ledger left school at the age of 17 to pursue a career in acting. He eventually landed a role in Blackrock, a small independent feature about teen rape,... read more

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