John Truscott
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- Dictionarysleeping/ˈsliːpɪŋ/
noun
- 1. the fact, state, or condition of being asleep: "it was 30 degrees at 1 a.m. a few weeks ago and sleeping was near impossible"
adjective
- 1. in a state of sleep: "he looked at the sleeping child"
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The Sleeping Dictionary: Directed by Guy Jenkin. With Jessica Alba, Brenda Blethyn, Hugh Dancy, Bob Hoskins. A young Englishman is sent to Malaysian Borneo in the 1930s to stay with a tribe as UK's colonial representative.
In 1936, the expatriated young and naive just-graduated British John Truscott arrives to the Sarawak, a British colony, to work in the Iban society. The beautiful Selima is assigned to be his "sleeping dictionary", to live and sleep with him and teach him the language and habits of the locals.
His superior, Henry Bullard (Bob Hoskins), the Governor of the district, initiates him into the ways of his office, which includes sleeping with an Iban woman, Selima (Jessica Alba), who will teach him the language – she is his Sleeping Dictionary.
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The Sleeping Dictionary: Directed by Guy Jenkin. With Jessica Alba, Brenda Blethyn, Hugh Dancy, Bob Hoskins. A young Englishman is sent to Malaysian Borneo in the 1930s to stay with a tribe as UK's colonial representative.
The Sleeping Dictionary: Directed by Guy Jenkin. With Jessica Alba, Brenda Blethyn, Hugh Dancy, Bob Hoskins. A young Englishman is sent to Malaysian Borneo in the 1930s to stay with a tribe as UK's colonial representative.
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