Summary:
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, 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, 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.
| Runtime: | 125 min |
|---|---|
| Rating: | Rated R for some language and a crude sexual reference. |
| Production: | Dinamo Story A/S |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Countries: | USA, Norway |
| Languages: | English, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Cantonese, Malay |
| Home Release Date: | Dec 13, 2005 |
| Director | Credit |
|---|---|
| Hans Petter Moland | Director |
| Writer | Credit |
|---|---|
| Lingard Jervey | Story |
| Sabina Murray | Story |
| Principal Cast | Credit |
|---|---|
| Damien Nguyen | Binh |
| Dang Quoc Thinh Tran | Tam |
| Ling Bai | Ling |
| Cast | Credit |
|---|---|
| Chapman To | Chingmy |
| Ka Duy Pham | Cousin 15 Years Old |
| Minh Trang Ngo | Cousin 14 Years Old |
| Nick Nolte | Steve |
| Tang Vu | Head Servant |
| Temuera Morrison | Snakehead |
| Thi Hoa Mai | Wa |
| Thi Kim Xuan Chau | Mai |
| Thu An Nguyen | Old Woman |
| Thu Anh | Mrs. Hoa |
| Tim Roth | Captain Oh |
| Xuan Phuc Dins | Pham |
| Producer | Credit |
|---|---|
| Callum Greene | Line Producer: New York |
| Edward R. Pressman | Producer |
| Gregory G. Woertz | Executive Producer |
| Jan Økern | Executive Producer |
| Jon Katz | Co-Producer |
| Kim Davis | Line Producer: Texas |
| Nicholas Simon | Line Producer: Vietnam |
| Petter J. Borgli | Producer |
| Sam Nazarian | Executive Producer |
| Terrence Malick | Producer |
| Tomas Backström | Producer |
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