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IMDb rating 6.1
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Critic Keith Uhlich

...a mordant study of 21st-century big business in the guise of a fish-out-of-water comedy.

Read full review at The A.V. Club
Critic Nick Allen
rated 8

Hanks remains a great everyman, which means here he can be a wonderful outsider, a surrogate into our realizations or failures.

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Critic Jonathan Pile
rated 6

...plays out like a relocated Lost In Translation. Both films centre on a main character whose personal life is falling apart, who find it tricky to adjust to the foreign cultures they find themselves in...

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Critic Mark Kermode
rated 6

Alexander Black makes some dramatic headway as Alan’s driver-cum-guide Yousef, while Sarita Choudhury breathes life into blossoming romantic subplot which proves the film’s most intriguing feature.

Read full review at The Guardian
Critic Mia Brygger
rated 5

Som den akse hvorom filmen drejer, fungerer Tom Hanks glimrende, specielt i hans kraft som lutter modtagesignal for historiens spraglede figurer, der gennem ham får både liv og dimension.

Read full review at Cinemazone
Critic Lise Ulrich
rated 7

Der er en overraskende skønhed i ’A Hologram for the King’, der langsomt sniger sig ind på en undervejs i Alans ørkenvandring, ikke mindst i skildringerne af landets almindelige borgere og deres hverdag.

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Critic Kerstin Gezelius
rated 6

Filmen räddas av att Hanks spelar den amerikanske kostymnissen i främmande värld med all den charm, oskuld och chosefrihet som tillskrivits honom i tre decennier men som han egentligen inte har erövrat förrän på senare år.

Read full review at Dagens Nyheter
Critic Daniel Hånberg Alonso
rated 5

Tom Hanks är sedvanligt väldigt bra...

Read full review at Nöjesguiden

Cast & Crew

Tom Tykwer
Composer
Tom Tykwer
Director
Tom Tykwer
Writer
Tom Hanks
As Alan Clay
Tom Skerritt
As Ron Clay
Ben Whishaw
As Dave
Sarita Choudhury
As Dr. Zahra Hakeem

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A Hologram for the King is a movie about a struggling American businessman named Alan Clay who is sent to Saudi Arabia by his company to sell a holographic teleconferencing system project to the Saudi government for a lot of money. He is also trying to recover from a financially messy divorce and the layoff of hundreds of employees. While there, he meets with some Saudi locals and starts to develop feelings for a Saudi doctor named Zahra. However, his attempts to do business with the Saudis are thwarted by Middle Eastern bureaucracy and a perpetually absent monarch, and he also becomes suspicious of a growth on his back that he gets checked out at a local hospital. Ultimately, it is implied that the Saudi government had always intended to do business with the Chinese instead of him, and he returns home after the presentation is given.

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A Hologram for the King was released for streaming on August 9, 2016.