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The Painted Veil

Sometimes the greatest journey is the distance between two people.

Rating 7.3 / 10Release December 9, 2006Runtime 125 min

A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.

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