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First Look: Beautiful Country
Distributor: Sony Picture Classics
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Producers: Petter J. Borgli, Edward R. Pressman, Terrence
Malick
Screenwriter: Sabrina Murray, Larry Gross, Terrence Malick
Cast: Bai Ling, Tran Dang Quoc Thinh, Tim Roth, Nick
Nolte, and Damien Nguyen
Synopsis:
One of the consequences of America's involvement in the Vietnam war, was
the children of GI's by their Vietnamese wives and lovers. For years those
women who were involved with Americans 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 love child, Binh
(Damien Nguyen), being forced from his village at 17, going to Saigon
to find his mother, then trying to escape to America with his much younger
half brother, Tam (Dang Quoc Thinh Tran), 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 finally opens up when Binh leaves New York for Houston
to find his father.
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