The Beautiful Country (2004)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.4/10   

Director:

Hans Petter Moland

Escritores (WGA):

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

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:

Coming to America

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
Duc Thuan Khuong	...	Mrs. Hoa's son
Than Kien Nguyen	...	Riley
Be He	...	Grandfather
Phat Trieu Hoang	...	Captain on Junk
Eric Jimenez	...	Refugee
Mersing Nguyen	...	Refugee
Thi Linh Phoung Nguyen	...	Exquisite
Viet Trang Ha	...	Friend at Tavern
Thi Huong Dung Nguyen	...	Lady Barber
Thi Hong Bui	...	Crippled Woman
Danh Thau Nguyen	...	Passenger
Thi Xuan Thuc Nguyen	...	Begging Woman
Wee Suu Loke	...	Official
Ganrasha Moorthy	...	Officer
Donh Thi Nguyen	...	Interpreter
Minh Quoc Pham	...	Guard #1
Xuan Minh Nguyen	...	Sick Old Man
Damien Hung	...	Eng
Van Hai Nguyen	...	Git Wo
Anh Tan Bui	...	Mother
Vien Toan Le	...	Old Man #1
Chuy Choi Le	...	Middle Aged Man
Ngoc Hanh Tran	...	Thin Man
Phong Ka	...	Angry Young Man
Lam Hoe Nguyen	...	Old Man #2
Ka Ah	...	Plump Man
Yi Long Phan	...	King Man
Ku	...	Soldier
Thi Noh Thu Nguyen	...	Mother #2
Thi Thanh Hsien Nguyen	...	Wife
Hsien Chi Do	...	Hirl in party dress
Thi Hoan Tran	...	Vhi's Mother
Carl Savering	...	Truck driver
Glen Bradford	...	Wayne
Bobby Chinn	...	Bunk Mate
Dong Hoang	...	Player
Jon Katz	...	Man in window
Rafael Foncillas	...	Child in windo #1
Santiago Foncillas	...	Child in window #2
Arthur J. Nascarella	...	Griff
Richard Lack	...	Postal Clerk
Phyllis Cicero	...	Receptionist
John Hussey	...	Jerry
Dora Chu	...	Bartender
Victor Macias	...	Mexican man
Libby Villari	...	Steve's ex-wife
Don McCoy	...	Police officer
Kirk Griffith	...	Ranch owner
Stella	...	Steve's dog
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Nengshia Ly	...	Bar Patron
Rebecca Beazley	...	Waitress (uncredited)
Devin Carbaugh	...	Yuppie (uncredited)
Michael Douglas	...	Man on TV - 'Wall Street' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dirigida por
Hans Petter Moland

Créditos del guión (WGA)
Sabina Murray		(story) and
Lingard Jervey		(story)
Sabina Murray		(screenplay)

Producida por
Tomas Backström	....	producer
Petter J. Borgli	....	producer
Kim Davis	....	line producer: Texas
Callum Greene	....	line producer: New York
Jon Katz	....	co-producer
Terrence Malick	....	producer
Sam Nazarian	....	executive producer
Jan Økern	....	executive producer
Edward R. Pressman	....	producer
Nicholas Simon	....	line producer: Vietnam
Gregory G. Woertz	....	executive producer (as Gregory Woertz)

Música original por
Zbigniew Preisner

Fotografía por
Stuart Dryburgh

Montaje por
Wibecke Rønseth

Casting
Avy Kaufman
Hoa Anh Tran

Diseño de producción por
Karl Júlíusson

Decorados
William A. Cimino

Diseño de vestuario por
Anne Pedersen

Departamento de maquillaje
Brian Abbott	....	assistant hair stylist: New York
Brian Abbott	....	makeup artist: New York
Kalen Hoyle	....	makeup artist: Texas
Eva Rygh	....	makeup designer
Leo Won	....	key hair stylist: New York
Leo Won	....	key makeup artist: New York

Dirección de producción
Marina Grana	....	production manager: Vietnam (as Marina Vivian Smith)
Anthony Katagas	....	production manager: New York
Tove Kløvvik	....	unit production manager
Jennifer Wyatt-Beasley	....	unit production manager: Dallas (as Jennifer Beasley)

Ayudante de dirección
Dominique Delany	....	first assistant director
Helga Høegh-Krohn	....	assistant director
Vince P. Maggio	....	first assistant director: New York
Doug Silver	....	second second assistant director: Texas

Departamento de Arte
Eric Dean	....	art department coordinator: New York
Gretchen Goetz	....	set decorator: Texas
Jason Hammond	....	property master
Lynne Moon	....	art director: Texas
Michael Wilks	....	lead man: Dallas

Departamento de sonido
Kim Dalum	....	production sound mixer
Sturla Einarson	....	sound designer
Petter Fladeby	....	sound designer
Petter Fladeby	....	sound re-recording mixer
Per Christian Grimsgaard	....	sound editor
Richard Hocks	....	sound stage engineer
Svenn Jakobsen	....	supervising sound editor (as Svenn Jakobsen Dahle)
Toby Price	....	sound editor
Anna Rieke	....	sound mixer: New York
Espen Rønning	....	sound editor
Richard Sveen	....	foley artist
Richard Sveen	....	sound editor
Erik S. Watland	....	dialogue editor
Chris Sturmer	....	consultant: Dolby film sound (uncredited)

Visual Effects
Gudmundur Gunnarsson	....	visual effects supervisor
Stian Kjørsvik	....	visual effects
Jan Martin Vågen	....	visual effects
Chris Wallace	....	HD colourist

Cámara y Departamento Eléctrico
Philip J. Borgli	....	assistant camera: Vietnam
Cheryl Clarson	....	best boy electric
Peter Clarson	....	gaffer: Texas
Patrick R. Heffernan	....	local key grip
Brenden Holster	....	first assistant camera: Vietnam
John Johns	....	24 frame video operator
Mike Lougheed	....	best boy: Vietnam
Ritticom Manonom	....	second assistant camera
Roland Neveu	....	still photographer
Sean O'Neill	....	gaffer: Vietnam
Andrew Redd	....	grip
Tony Slack	....	electrician: Vietnam
Angelo Louis Suasnovar Jr.	....	key grip: Texas
D. Van Gramberg	....	key grip: Vietnam
Jason Vigue	....	video assist operator
Mark Waggy	....	still photographer: Texas

Departamento de reparto
Toni Cobb Brock	....	local extras casting
Byron Crystal	....	background casting: New York
Kevin Howard	....	location casting
Annie Hedgpeth	....	local extras casting (uncredited)

Departamento de vestuario
Diane Kearney	....	set costumer
Eden Miller	....	assistant costume designer: New York
Luca Mosca	....	costume designer: New York

Departamento de Edición
Kristoffer Archetti	....	assistant editor
Vidar Flataukan	....	assistant editor
Motassem Younes	....	on-line editor

Departamento de Música
Beth Rosenblatt	....	music consultant

Otros miembros del equipo
Sing Allan	....	medical doctor
Lylie Almedia	....	accountant
Michael Barnes	....	financial legal services
Laura Compston	....	accountant
Richard Connors	....	location advisor
Gary Kauffman	....	legal counsel
Amber Kelley	....	assistant production coordinator: Texas
Suzanne Koneful	....	assistant location manager
Aslaug Konradsdottir	....	script supervisor
Justin Leger	....	technical consultant
Brendan MacDevette	....	production assistant
Terrence Malick	....	idea
Francis McIntyre	....	location manager: Texas
Phillip Montgomery	....	assistant: Mr. Pressman
Noreen Perez	....	production assistant
Salma Reiermark	....	production coordinator
Mark Robinson	....	key set production assistant: Texas
Mira Shin	....	assistant: Mr. Pressman
Bo Svensson	....	assistant location manager
Kelli Grace Taylor	....	production coordinator: Texas
Matt Tromans	....	assistant: Nick Nolte
Daniel Wagner	....	post delivery supervisor

Compañías Productores

• Dinamo Story A/S
• Sunflower Productions
• Norsk Filmfond
• Sud-Est Productions

Distribuidores

• A-Film Distribution (2005) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• A-Film Home Entertainment (2006) (Netherlands) (DVD) (retail)
• ContentFilm International (2004) (worldwide) (all media) (sales agency)
• LK-TEL (2006) (Argentina) (DVD)
• LK-TEL (2006) (Argentina) (VHS)
• Mongrel Media (2005) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Movie Bank (2005) (Netherlands) (DVD) (rental)
• Sony Pictures Classics (2005) (USA) (theatrical)
• Svensk Filmindustri (SF) (Scandinavia)
• TF1 International

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)

Coming to America

"The Beautiful Country" is a film that tries to capture one of the worst problems in the world today, illegal people smuggling into that promised land that for some is the United States. Director Hans Peter Moland has created a film with the feeling of a documentary that follows the hard journey of a man in search of a father he never knew. Beautifully photographed by Stuart Drybargh, and with a haunting musical score by Zbigniew Preisner, "The Beautiful Country" could well have been subtitled "His Worst Nightmare".

We are introduced to Binh, a tall young man living in Viet Nam after the end of the war. The time is 1990 and we are offered a glimpse of Binh's life where his relatives, as well as the rest of the Vietnamese don't like him because of his mixed race. His father was an American G.I. who married his mother, Mai, but Binh never gets to meet him because Steve, as the father is named, disappeared from Saigon, never to be found again.

The film is Binh's odyssey to be reunited with the father he doesn't know. It's a horrific journey where Binh shows his own skills to endure the worst possible conditions to realize his dream of getting to meet a father he never knew. It's a homage to the surviving spirit of a man.

Damien Nguyen is Binh, the young mixed race Vietnamese man. He does an outstanding job under Mr. Moland's direction. Nick Nolte, as Steve has some good moments. The supporting cast makes an excellent contribution to the movie.

The film proves to what extent a determined man will go in order to get what he wants.