The Constant Gardener (2005) on Netflix
In northern Kenya, the body of activist Tessa Quayle, wife of British diplomat Justin Quayle, is found. Back in Nairobi, he sets out to learn what she was investigating.
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Plot summary
Justin Quayle is a British diplomat posted to Nairobi, where he keeps his head down and tends his plants. He meets Tessa when she confronts him at a lecture in London; they marry and she comes with him to Kenya, where she works as an activist and befriends a Belgian doctor, Arnold Bluhm. Tessa writes a report on drug trials run by the Kenyan company Three Bees, and it brings her into conflict with Justin's superiors, who assume he will let them handle matters when her body is found in the north of the country. He begins to follow the trail of her investigation.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Constant Gardener (2005)
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- John le Carré provided a dedication and a personal afterword in the first edition of the 2001 novel, and both are reproduced in the film's closing credits. The dedication reads: "This film is dedicated to Yvette Pierpaoli and all other aid workers who lived and died giving a damn."
- Circumstances in the area affected the cast and crew so deeply that producer Simon Channing Williams led the creation of the Constant Gardener Trust, set up to address issues of sanitation and education there.
- The plot is loosely based on a real-life case in Kano, Nigeria, involving antibacterial testing by Pfizer on small children.
- Kate Winslet and Eva Green were both considered for the female lead before Weisz was cast, and Lupita Nyong'o worked on the film as a production assistant.
