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| Directed by | James Ivory |
| Produced by | Paul Bradley Pierre Proner |
| Written by | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| Based on | The City of Your Final Destination by Peter Cameron |
| Starring | Anthony Hopkins Laura Linney Charlotte Gainsbourg Hiroyuki Sanada Omar Metwally Hiroyuki Sanada Alexandra Maria Lara |
| Music by | Jorge Drexler |
| Cinematography | Javier Aguirresarobe Pierre Mignot (Montréal) |
| Editing by | John David Allen |
| Studio | Hyde Park International A Merchan Ivory Film |
| Distributed by | Screen Media Films |
| Release date(s) | February 7, 2009 (European Film Market) April 16, 2010 (United States) |
| Running time | 118 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The City of Your Final Destination is a novel by American writer Peter Cameron. Most of the story takes place in a small town in Uruguay. However, the Uruguay of the novel bears little relation to the geography or culture of the real country. The novel's beginning and ending chapters taking place in Lawrence, Kansas, where the protagonist is a graduate student at the University of Kansas.
In 2007 Merchant Ivory Productions produced a film based on the book, directed by James Ivory with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
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It had an early preview in New York City on November 27, 2007 (at the ceremony of the Trophée des Arts for James Ivory from the French Institute New York).In October 2009, James Ivory brought the film to Rome, where it received its official world premiere at the International Rome Film Festival, out of competition, then showing at Tokyo International Film Festival for Hiroyuki Sanada's special screening. Screen Media will distribute in the United States, with release scheduled for April 16, 2010.
The City of Your Final Destination is the first Merchant Ivory film without producer Ismail Merchant and composer Richard Robbins.
The film follows a graduate student, Omar Razaghi (Omar Metwally), who wishes to write a biography on an obscure writer, Jules Gund, who died years before. He must travel to Uruguay to persuade the Gund family to authorize the biography.
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In early 2007, Anthony Hopkins claimed he had yet to be paid for his work on the film, and that Merchant Ivory had short-changed the cast and crew.[1] Merchant Ivory counter-argued that Hopkins' payment terms had in fact recently been renegotiated higher. Later in the year, the actor filed court papers to take the company to an arbitrator. In October 2007, Hopkins filed a lawsuit against Merchant Ivory for payment of his salary of $750,000.[2]