The Wisdom of Crocodiles (also released as Immortality) is a 1998

1998 in film

-Events:* February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein.* Former child star Gary Coleman is charged with assaulting a young female bus driver at a California shopping mall.-Top grossing films:...

 romantic thriller by Po-Chih Leong starring Jude Law

Jude Law

David Jude Heyworth Law , known professionally as Jude Law, is an English actor, film producer and director.He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987, and had his first television role in 1989...

. It is based on the book of the same name by Paul Hoffman

Paul Hoffman (English writer)

Paul Hoffman studied English at New College, Oxford.A portion of his first novel was made into a film of the same name, The Wisdom of Crocodiles with Jude Law, Timothy Spall and Elina Löwensohn....

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Cast

Jude Law

Jude Law

David Jude Heyworth Law , known professionally as Jude Law, is an English actor, film producer and director.He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987, and had his first television role in 1989...

 - Steven Grlscz

Elina Löwensohn

Elina Löwensohn

Elina Löwensohn is a Romanian-born American actress.-Biography:Löwensohn was born in Bucharest, Romania. After the death of her father, a survivor of Nazi concentration camps, her mother emigrated to the United States with her, where her mother went on a hunger strike in order to get a visa for...

 - Anne Levels

Timothy Spall

Timothy Spall

Timothy Leonard Spall, OBE is an English character actor and occasional presenter.-Early life:Spall, the third of four sons, was born in Battersea, London. His mother, Sylvia R. , was a hairdresser, and his father, Joseph L. Spall, was a postal worker...

 - Inspector Healey

Jack Davenport

Jack Davenport

Jack Davenport is an English actor, best known for his roles in the television series This Life, Coupling and as James Norrington in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. He has also appeared in many other Hollywood films such as The Talented Mr. Ripley...

 - Sergeant Roche

Colin Salmon

Colin Salmon

Colin Salmon is a British actor best known for playing the character Charles Robinson in three James Bond films.-Personal life:...

 - Martin

Hitler Wong - Noodles Chan

Kerry Fox

Kerry Fox

Kerry Fox is a New Zealand actress. She came to prominence playing author Janet Frame in the movie An Angel at My Table directed by Jane Campion, which gained her a Best Actress Award from the New Zealand Film and Television Awards....

 - Maria Vaughan

Stuart Bowman

Stuart Bowman (actor)

Stuart Bowman is a Scottish actor notable for his appearances in the film The Wisdom of Crocodiles, the sit-com Gary: Tank Commander and the radio play Carver.-External links:* for Stuart Bowman....

 - Car Crash Mechanic

C.J. December - Car Crash Mechanic

Anastasia Hille

Anastasia Hille

Anastasia Hille is an English actress active in British television, theatre, and film.Hille was a student at Drama Centre . She was nominated for the Ian Charleson Awards in 1994.-Television:...

 - Karen

Nicholas Lamont - Toll Bridge Attendant (as Nick Lamont)

Joseph O'Conor

Joseph O'Conor

Joseph O'Conor was an Anglo-Irish actor and playwright.- Early years :O'Conor was born in Dublin on 14 February 1916, the son of Frances and Daniel O'Conor. His family moved to London, where he attended the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, the University of London and RADA...

 - Mr. Nancarrow

Ashley Artus - Gang Leader

Tom Wu

Tom Wu

Tom Wu is Chinese-American actor, born in Hong Kong and grew up in Chinatown, London. He is a martial arts expert who has starred in films like Revolver,Shanghai Knights, Batman Begins and the Bollywood sci-fi blockbuster Ra.One....

 - Gang Member

Hon Ping Tang - Gang Member

Antony Cotton

Antony Cotton

Antony Cotton is an English actor and singer best known for his roles in Coronation Street and the original UK version of Queer as Folk.-Early and personal life:...

 - Gang Member

Richard Mylan

Richard Mylan

Richard Mylan is a British stage and television actor and former dancer.He was born in Swansea in 1973. There he attended the Birchgrove junior school, where he played rugby and in 1982 won the Swansea heat of the British 'Disco Kids Championships'...

 - Gang Member

Carlton Headley - Gang Member

Neran Persaud - Gang Member

Julia Davies - Girl in Operating Theatre

Rupert Farley

Rupert Farley

Rupert Farley is an actor from the UK. He has had various bit roles in Movies such as From Hell and Mrs. Brown. He is probably best known for his voice acting work, which includes voice over work for TV advertisements and animation. His name is well known amongst the fans of "The Animals of...

 - Priest

Diane Howse - Mrs. Healey

Cliff Parisi

Cliff Parisi

Cliff Parisi is an English actor of Italian descent, largely recognised for his performance as Rick 'Minty' Peterson in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders.-Career:...

 - Labourer

Vincent Keane - Injured Workman

Carlton Jarvis - Physician (uncredited)

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes

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 gave it a total score of 47% and MetaCritic

Metacritic

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 gave it 58/100.

"... this cool, handsome thriller proceeds with an elliptical elegance." wrote Richard Corliss

Richard Corliss

Richard Nelson Corliss is a writer for Time magazine who focuses on movies, with the occasional article on music or sports. Corliss is the former editor-in-chief of Film Comment...

, of Time magazine.

The film won the 1999 Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film

Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film

The Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival , previously named Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film was created in 1983 as a venue for horror, thriller and science fiction films. It takes place in Brussels, every year in March...

. Upon the film's US DVD

DVD

A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

 release in 2000, it was renamed Immortality.

External links

• The Wisdom of Crocodiles at IMDB
• The Wisdom of Crocodiles at Allmovie
• The Wisdom of Crocodiles N.Y. Times, Review summary by Elvis Mitchell
  Elvis Mitchell
  Elvis Mitchell is an American film critic, host of the public radio show The Treatment, and visiting lecturer at Harvard University. He has served as a film critic for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the LA Weekly, The Detroit Free Press, and The New York Times...
  
  
• The Wisdom of Crocodiles at Rotten Tomatoes
  Rotten Tomatoes
  Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films—widely known as a film review aggregator. Its name derives from the cliché of audiences throwing tomatoes and other vegetables at a poor stage performance...
  
  
• The Wisdom of Crocodiles at MetaCritic
  Metacritic
  Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
  
  
• Immortality at netflix.com
• The Wisdom of Crocodiles, trailer at IMDB