Beyond the Limit (1983)

Storyline

Dr. Eduardo Plarr, despite the name is an Anglo working in a Latin American country. His work is a return home after several years. He begins to form and re-establish friendships and begins an affair. All of this comes together to create problems when he is asked to help revolutionaries kidnap a diplomat. The Honorary Consul (released in the U.S. as “Beyond the Limit”), the 1983 John Mackenzie English romantic political action thriller (“The first time he saw her, she was a prostitute. The second time, she was his best friend’s wife. The third time, she was his.”; “First they betrayed him. Then they gambled with his life.”; “Based on the novel ‘The Honorary Consul’ by Graham Greene”) starring Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins, Elpidia Carrillo, and Joaquim de Almeida