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Based on an idea by Guillermo Arriaga, Alejandro González Iñárritu.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2006.

Disc 2 includes the director's making-of video diary: Common ground : under construction notes.

Directed and produced by Alejandro González Iñárritu ; written by Guillermo Arriaga ; produced by Jon Kilik, Steve Golin ; director of photography, Rodrigo Prieto ; edited by Stephen Mirrione, Douglas Crise ; music by Gustavo Santaolalla.

Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Kôji Yakusho, Adriana Barraza, Rinko Kikuchi.

A wealthy American is touring Morocco with his wife when the two become the focus of an international incident also involving a poor Moroccan farmer who is struggling to keep his two young sons in line and his family together. A San Diego nanny, with her employers absent, makes the disastrous decision to take her charges with her to a wedding in Mexico. A deaf-mute Japanese teen tries to deal with a relationship with her father and the world in general that has been upended by the death of her mother. From issues like terrorism and immigration to husbands talking to their wives and parents understanding their children, Babel interweaves these three stories to examine communication - or the lack of it - within and between cultures.

MPAA rating: R ; violence, some graphic nudity, sexual content, language and some drug use.

DVD, region 1; Dolby digital; widescreen.

Soundtrack in English or French with subtitles in English and Spanish; closed-captioned.