The Beautiful Country
One of the consequences of the U.S.-Viet Nam war was the children of G.I.s by their Viet Namese wives and lovers. For years, women who were involved with U.S. soldiers were social outcasts, treated as collaborators while their children, even when living with grandparents, endured taunts and abuse. This is the story of one such child, Binh, being forced from his village at seventeen years, going to Saigon to find his mother, then trying to escape to the U.S. with his much younger half-brother, Tam, in 1990. The film lingers on the rigors of the voyage: the sampan, the Malaysian detention camps, the illegal refugee ship, and the underground economy with near-slavery in New York City. It then opens up when Binh leaves New York for Houston to find his father.
R
HD
Drama
2004
125 min
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Movie Info:
- Full Name : The Beautiful Country
- Duration : 125 min
- Languages : Vietnamese, English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Malay
- Writers : Sabina Murray (story), Lingard Jervey (story), Sabina Murray (screenplay)
- Directors : Hans Petter Moland min
- Imdb : 7.5 (3265 votes)
- Tomatoes : 3.1 (328 votes)
- Actors : Damien Nguyen, Bai Ling, Thi Hoa Mai, Nick Nolte
Movie Storyline
One of the consequences of the U.S.-Viet Nam war was the children of G.I.s by their Viet Namese wives and lovers. For years, women who were involved with U.S. soldiers were social outcasts, treated as collaborators while their children, even when living with grandparents, endured taunts and abuse. This is the story of one such child, Binh, being forced from his village at seventeen years, going to Saigon to find his mother, then trying to escape to the U.S. with his much younger half-brother, Tam, in 1990. The film lingers on the rigors of the voyage: the sampan, the Malaysian detention camps, the illegal refugee ship, and the underground economy with near-slavery in New York City. It then opens up when Binh leaves New York for Houston to find his father.