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Article: Jodie Foster stars in `Anna and the King'
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- Chicago Defender
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- December 15, 1999
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Jodie Foster stars in `Anna and the King'
English schoolteacher Anna Leonowens has done something that women of the Victorian age simply never do. The young widow has traveled thousands of miles with her son to a land that is largely unknown to the Western world. She arrives in Siam with adventure in her eyes and a Siamese primer in her hand. Whatever awaits her in this strange new world, there is no turning back.
Anna has been employed to educate the king's 58 children. She knows very of King Mongkut, apart from the fact that his people revere him as a god. She brings with her an "East vs. West" prejudice against the king, considering him to be uncivilized.
She soon realizes that her views ...
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