The Constant Gardener
According to Reuters, The Constant Gardener, which is based on the John le Carre novel of the same name, highlights what the spy novelist calls the “appalling” practices of drug companies in Africa.
“What I wrote about in The Constant Gardener was about the outrageous behaviour of the pharmaceutical industry in the Third World, about the misuse of supposedly consenting patients in clinical trials,” le Carre told Reuters in a weekend interview.
Major conglomerates were developing drugs “not to cure the sick and the poor and needy of the world but actually to cure the rich, which is us in the West”, he said.
“You may see this as a radical perception, I see it simply as a humanist one.”
The Constant Gardener opens in the the US and Finland in August and the UK and the Netherlands in October.
The Trailer
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Sunday 24 Jul 2005 | Paul | Drama, Thriller
