The Interpreter (2005) poster
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FilmPG-132005

The Interpreter

CrimeThriller

Directed by Sydney Pollack

After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate. From TMDB

37 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Mastodon) · newest Sep 23, 2026 · last updated Oct 9, 2026 · How this works

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The Interpreter is a 2005 crime thriller film, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn and Catherine Keener.

  • 29 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Mastodon
  • posts span May 6, 2022 to Sep 23, 2026

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  • Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 28, 2025

    It also seems to assume that the question of who did the killing is obvious and uncontroversial. And that the killer doesn't just flee beyond their reach. And finally, it's a fake African custom invented for the 2005 movie "The Interpreter" with Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn.

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  • Tri33.3Esq @333triesq.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2025

    In the movie The Interpreter with Nicole Kidman there is a line that the best thing that can happen to a leader is an assassination attempt. Trump followed that script.

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  • Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 2, 2025

    FOLKS! #BoxOfficeGROSS ep 14 is LIVE! We call upon the great @jessehawken.bsky.social to be our guest to help cover our most grown-up movie yet, Sydney Pollack's inexplicably financially successful political thriller THE INTERPRETER! open.spotify.com/episode/3jtl...

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  • La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 11, 2026

    Miss Daisy has had digestive probs since Christmas I went with her to consult with the GP and then to see a dietician (as The Interpreter - great film btw), to no avail Then I wondered, is stress causing it? I am an expert on stress and the damage it can cause to the body (see epigenetics/cancer)

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  • Tommy Boy @slownomaguy.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2026

    Agree. I remember a line from the movie "The Interpreter". Basically it said that an almost assonated leader will get sympathy from the public, and claim that there is evil everywhere, which only they can stop it.

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  • Marie Etzler @emeetz.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2025

    I just watched The Interpreter, a 2005 Sydney Pollack film starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn. I saw it years ago, but I enjoyed the performances of Kidman and Penn through the lense of their later movies.

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  • Random @corwin007.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2025

    check out the 2005 movie "The Interpreter" which also features the story of a fake assassination attempt. maybe that's where he got the idea... www.imdb.com/title/tt0373...

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  • Random @corwin007.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2025

    the fake assassination idea is not new, it was a feature of the 2005 movie "The Interpreter" and for the exact same reason. www.imdb.com/title/tt0373...

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  • 𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕 @2ndaryprotocol.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 16, 2025

    TRIVIA: 'The Interpreter' was the first film ever to be shot inside the United Nations Headquarters - locations include the General Assembly and the Security Council. The cast and crew filmed on weekends in order not to disrupt the regular work week of the organization. (IMDB) 🖤

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  • Erik García Gundersen @erikg503.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 12, 2025

    The movie The Interpreter (2005) is really both a hilarioius and sad cultural artifiact. The premise of the movie about diplomacy and the UN being a way to fix the world's problems just seems like such a childish thing to believe in now.

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  • Thomas F. Cook 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇳🇬 🇻🇪 @thosc747.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 23, 2026

    I think constantly of this middling movie The Interpreter, with Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn, (dir. Sydney Pollack.) A despotic, insane African leader comes to the U.N. to give a speech and thinks the people who are lined up to protest him are fans who love him. He is happy and waves back at them.

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  • QuietOurStreets @socalsilencer.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2025

    Last night, I had to watch The Interpreter (old Nicole Kidman movie). It eerily resembles today—having 2 bring a US-protected foreign president 2 ICC for Crimes Against Humanity. Instead of getting what that monster deserved (ass|nation), he is spared… Art imitates life, in the most disgusting way.

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  • Saleem H. Ali @saleemali.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 29, 2025

    “Vengeance is a Lazy form of Grief.” - from The Interpreter film #Quotes

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  • Lil Murda’s Ankh @ladidadi56.blacksky.appBluesky · Sep 4, 2025

    Jhumpa Lahiri is an amazing writer. There’s a movie too! The Interpreter of Maladies is her books of short stories that’s amazing

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  • Random @corwin007.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 2, 2025

    tonight's movie is related to the Butler PA assassination attempt of DT, "The Interpreter" in which there is a staged event on a political figure www.imdb.com/title/tt0373...

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  • THE FUTURIST! @tfuturist.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 14, 2025

    Only time ever to visit the Beekman was to see Woody Allen's MELINDA & MELINDA which was (perhaps) the penultimate film to play there before closing. Believe the last movie was Sydney Pollack's THE INTERPRETER. Now a medical center.

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · May 26, 2025

    The (movie) The Interpreter (HD) is available today on (iTunes)(Australia) for AU$4.99 Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Jesper Christensen, Yvan Attal, Earl Cameron Genre: (Crime) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/interpreter/

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  • Joop van Huet @j3193.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 12, 2024

    I was mostly in the countryside - Netherland's 'big sky' :-) - when listening to especially Flyboys and the Interpreter-soundtracks, and felt i was IN a movie.

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  • We're Hanging by a thread @aletheia777.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 19, 2026

    #movies #quoteoftheday #quotes #resist Love this. Comes from the film The Interpreter. "Even the lowest whisper can be heard—over armies...when it's telling the truth."

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 12, 2026

    The (movie) The Interpreter 1080p (iTunes)(US) $4.99 (Drama) (iMDB) 6.4 (Movies Anywhere) Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Jesper Christensen, Yvan Attal, Earl Cameron

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 7, 2026

    The (movie) The Interpreter (HD/HDX) (Vudu) (US) for $5 Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Jesper Christensen, Yvan Attal, Earl Cameron Genre: (Drama) (Movies Anywhere) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/interpreter/

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 5, 2026

    The (movie) The Interpreter (HD/HDX) (Vudu) (US) for $5 Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Jesper Christensen, Yvan Attal, Earl Cameron Genre: (Drama) (Movies Anywhere) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/interpreter/

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  • kendallgibson @kendallgibsonTMDB reviews · Sep 1, 2026

    Why is it that every movie about a corrupt African dictator has to have a made up African country? Anyway, this particular film is a bit of a snoozefest. Sean Penn is a secret service agent in charge of keeping Nicole Kidman safe from the opposite of Wakanda -- however, is the opposite of Wakanda safe from Nicole Kidman...? This movie was shot juuust before the iPhone came out, so if you are looking for a time capsule of New York City around that time then I guess this fits the bill. At one…

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 30, 2026

    The (movie) The Interpreter 1080p (iTunes)(AU) AU$4.99 (Crime) (iMDB) 6.4 Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Jesper Christensen, Yvan Attal, Earl Cameron

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  • Compass11 @compass11.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 22, 2026

    BBC - Black Country - Entertainment - The Interpreter share.google/NNOc7OMlcJDH... Hi. I enjoyed watching this movie last night. The category is thriller related to an assassination of a president. Sean Penn plays a good role through non- verbal comunication with Nicole Kidman. Try this movie.

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  • movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 21, 2026

    April 22 2005 THE INTERPRETER opens. Dir. Sydney Pollack's last film. An overheard conversation plunges Nicole Kidman's icy UN interpreter & Sean Penn's Secret Service agent into convoluted political murder conspiracy. Dour high end stars fail to find flatlining thriller's pulse.

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  • New On Netflix UK [Fan Account] @uk.newonnetflix.infoBluesky · Apr 19, 2026

    The Interpreter (2005) 2hr 8m [12] [Streaming Again] An interpreter for the United Nations finds herself in danger after she overhears an assassination plot and turns to a skeptical federal agent for help. #NowStreaming #Netflix #NetflixUK

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  • Random @corwin007.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 11, 2026

    i always like to bring up the plot to the 2005 movie "The Interpreter" when i see posts like this... not an original idea...

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  • Hennie Kriel @officially-hennie.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 5, 2025

    Name your favorite movie (with GIF!) that was released in each year since you were born. Day 22: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (No GIFs for The Interpreter or The Exorcism of Emily Rose 😑)

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  • Stephen Linco @stepehn3.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 28, 2025

    I Finished Watching The Interpreter on HBO And It Was A Great Movie

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  • NH's "Play-by-Play" Guy @egall.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 26, 2025

    Dang it I should really rewatch "The Interpreter"; I've forgotten how it went: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Int...

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  • Eric Norcross @ericnorcross.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2025

    “This is how you put a gun down.” -The Interpreter (one of my favorite movie moments).

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  • Random @corwin007.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2025

    maybe it has something to do with the movie "The Interpreter" www.imdb.com/title/tt0373...

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  • Logan R. Kearsley @gliese1337.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 4, 2025

    I have now rewatched The Interpreter as well, and remain disappointed. The movie would be almost completely unchanged if everyone in it were a monolingual anglophone.

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  • Onișor Adrian @aconisor.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 18, 2024

    The Interpreter (2005) www.imdb.com/title/tt0373... #film

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  • Michael Reed @mikeyreed.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 3, 2024

    #NowWatching The Interpreter (2005) with Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener. A UN Interpreter overhears an assassination plot. Sounds like something Hitchcock would make, but this is a Sydney Pollack film.

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  • The Irate Penguin 🇪🇺 @[email protected]Mastodon · May 6, 2022

    Just (re-)watched "The Interpreter" (2005), which #Netflix uploaded recently, and was surprised how badly #IMDb rated it (at 6.4⭐ ). Now it might not be Hitchcock at his finest, but I found it an enjoyable action #film — and for me, "enjoyable action film" means there needs to be more than action — a storyline fit for more than a six-year-old, and characters more interesting than the average 2D superhero tripe. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373926/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 #theinterpreter…

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