The Beautiful Country (2004)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.4/10   

Director:

Hans Petter Moland

Escritores (WGA):

Sabina Murray (story) and
Lingard Jervey (story) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

13 marzo 2004 (Norway)

Género:

Drama

Frase comercial:

An epic story of hope.

Plot:

After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York, Binh begins a road trip to Texas, where his American father is said to live.

Plot Keywords:

Vietnam | New York City | China | Vietnam War | Gun

Premios:

4 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Austin Movie Show review

Reparto

Damien Nguyen	...	Binh
Ling Bai	...	Ling
Thi Hoa Mai	...	Wa
Nick Nolte	...	Steve
Tim Roth	...	Captain Oh
Chapman To	...	Chingmy
Temuera Morrison	...	Snakehead
Xuan Phuc Dins	...	Pham
Thu An Nguyen	...	Old Woman
Ka Duy Pham	...	Cousin 15 years old
Minh Trang Ngo	...	Cousin 14 years old
Dang Quoc Thinh Tran	...	Tam
Thi Kim Xuan Chau	...	Mai
Tang Vu	...	Head Servant
Thu Anh	...	Mrs. Hoa

También conocida como:

Un lugar maravilloso (Spain) [es]
Una vida nueva (Mexico) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for some language and a crude sexual reference.

Duración:

Norway:137 min | USA:125 min | Argentina:128 min

País:

USA | Norway

Idioma:

Inglés | Cantonés | Mandarin | Vietnamita

Color:

Color (Cinecolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Australia:M | Finland:K-11 | UK:12 | Argentina:16 | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Netherlands:MG6 | Norway:11 | USA:R

Locaciones de Filmación:

USA

Compañía:

Dinamo Story A/S

Errores:

Errores en Geografía: When Binh gets to Texas, the family giving him a ride drops him off outside a city and refers to it as Houston. The skyline of the city is very clearly that of Dallas, not Houston.

Citas:

Captain Oh: [to Binh] I offer you a new life; you choose an old dream.

Conexiones de Película:

Apariciones Wall Street (1987)

Austin Movie Show review

The children of American GI's in Vietnam were treated as second-class citizens – walking symbols of American control, destruction, and occupation. Binh (Damien Nguyen) lives with a foster family, can only eat their leftovers, and longs to find his own family, including the mother who couldn't support him and the American father he never knew. With only a picture of his parents, he leaves the village in search of his roots.

Binh finds his mother (and a young half brother) in Saigon, but after a deadly accident, he and his new brother are forced to flee the city and the country in search of America. Binh endures the purgatory of a Malaysian refugee camp and survives the hell of an illegal slave ship.

His travels are extraordinary and devastating, but the character of Binh is reason enough to see this incomparable epic. He has lived his life as an outcast, full of sorrow and shame. He rarely has the courage to look other people in the eye. But every catastrophic event in his journey brings him strength and courage, so that by the time he finds his father, he's man enough to face him. Or is he?