Babel
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Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.
- Director
- Alejandro G. Iñárritu
- Worldwide
- $135M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Babel returned 5.4× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $25M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $135M
- Release date
- Oct 26, 2006
- Runtime
- 2h 23m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- Arabic, English
- Country
- France, Mexico
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