Five lives bound by one fate.

Overview

The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die.

Top Billed Cast

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    Gabriel Byrne

    Brother Juniper

  2. Cast 1

    F. Murray Abraham

    Viceroy of Peru

  3. Cast 1

    Kathy Bates

    The Marquesa

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    Robert De Niro

    Archbishop of Peru

  5. Cast 1

    Harvey Keitel

    Uncle Pio

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    Pilar López de Ayala

    Camila Villegas (La Perichola)

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    Mark Polish

    Manuel

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    Michael Polish

    Esteban

  9. Adriana Domínguez

    Pepita

**_Thematically heavy costume drama (too weighty for the average viewer)_** In 1714, five people fall to their deaths in the Andes when an "indestructible" rope-bridge breaks and Franciscan monk Brother Juniper (Gabriel Byrne) becomes obsessed with the tragedy, collecting personal notes on all the victims and writing a book on his conclusions: Five people, all dying of the same cause at the same instant, cannot be mere coincidence in an understandable human universe. He's put on trial by the Inquisition (which was running Spain and Peru at the time) for humanly trying to second-guess an Act...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$24,000,000.00

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