The Beautiful Country
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- Synopsis
- A Vietnamese man looking for a better life embarks on a dangerous and eye-opening voyage to America in this powerful drama set during the early '90s. In 1990, Binh (Damien Nguyen) is a man in his early twenties who has never known his parents, though ......
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- Starring
- Nick Nolte, Tim Roth, Bai Ling, Damien Nguyen, Temuera Morrison... See more
- Director(s)
- Hans Petter Moland
- Distributor(s)
- Sony Classics
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 125 min.
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Los Angeles Times | Kevin ThomasAdd Critic to Favorites
It is a straightforward, conventional narrative, charting seemingly endless cruelty and hardship, but rewards the patient with an eloquent climactic sequence that is impossible to predict.Read the full review
The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk HoneycuttAdd Critic to Favorites
The film achieves its power through a careful gathering of crucial details, in wordless glances, cruelties of nature and of man and the relentless determination to gain the promised land.Read the full review
Boston Globe | Ty BurrAdd Critic to Favorites
The filmmakers bank against their impulse toward melodrama and deliver a reconciliation that is heartbreakingly understated.Read the full review
