grabs the baby and runs from the house, heading for the docks. Although John still has plans to be with Selima and their son, he begins writing a note but stops as Cecilia catches him. The couple then talk about John's love for Selima and how Cecilia wants John to be happy. Aggie is not happy that Cecilia and Henry have allowed both John and Selima to run away together because she never left Henry's sight, fearing he'd go with his sleeping dictionary. She encourages Neville to go after them. With the help of Famous and the Yakata, John searches for Selima as she's left believing that John didn't come to the place of arrangement. They reunite as Neville comes through with a gun. He tells them to cuff themselves around the bamboos and tells them of his plans to kill John, Selima and their baby. They're then rescued by the Yakata, who kill Neville. At the end, they decide to live together and migrate with the Yakata. Cast Hugh Dancy as John Truscott Jessica Alba as Selima Brenda Blethyn as Aggie Bullard Emily Mortimer as Cecilia Bullard Bob Hoskins as Henry Bullard Noah Taylor as Neville Shipperly Christopher Ling Lee Ian as Jasmine Junix Inocian as Famous Michael Jessing Langgi as Melaka Mano Maniam as Policeman K.K. Moggie as Tipong Cicilia Anak Richard as Jester Woman Malcolm Rogers as Vicar Eugene Salleh as Belansai Kate Helen White as Mandar Prang as Famous Monkey Production Screenplay Guy Jenkins, the writer and director, mentioned that he created the screenplay after a back-packing trip he made to Borneo in the early 1980s and became enamoured of the concept of ngayap which was the Iban way of courtship practised in the early 1920s and '30s. He combined the story with the romanticised idea of young Britons being posted to jungle outposts and being "thrown in the deep end" when they had to learn the local language in express time. And so a human "sleeping dictionary" was allocated to each of them. Filming locations The Sleeping Dictionary was filmed on various locations in Sarawak, Malaysia. A longhouse was specially constructed at great expense (RM125,000) at Batang Ai, about 15 minutes drive on the secondary road to the Hilton Batang Ai Resort, where the film cast and crew were based for 10 days. Locations in Kuching included the Matang Recreation Park; Buntal fishing village and