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The Beautiful Country |  | Director: Hans Petter Moland
Actors: Damien Nguyen, Ling Bai, Dang Quoc Thinh Tran, Thi Hoa Mai, Nick Nolte
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.94
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 36606
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Vietnamese (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 99
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 125 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 043396108653
ISBN: 1404979824
UPC: 043396108653
EAN: 9781404979826
ASIN: B000BMY2KQ
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Release Date: December 13, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
An outcast due to his American soldier father and native mother, Binh leaves Vietnam with his much younger half-brother to search for his father in Am
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 Nicely Done May 12, 2010
T. Cain (TampaBay, Fl USA)
If you like a good story line with above average acting you will enjoy this movie. The movie takes its time to let you get to know the characters and become a part of their suffering. Very well acted and keeps moving.
 The Vietnam War Reunion March 15, 2010
Arthur Carucci (New Jersey - USA)
Unlike other Vietnam War movies, The Beautiful Country allows the viewer to gain an understanding of the discrimination toward Amerasian children born during the Vietnam War. The journey of the movie's main character in his attempt to leave a country that did not treat him equally, and at the same time to find his American father brings the hard reality of the pain and suffering Amerasian children had to suffer and experience in vietnam up until only a few years ago. The movie nicely brings the viewer to a successful climax when the father and son reunion becomes a reality. For those of us Vietnam veterans that have personally experienced similar plights, the movie is a must see. For others, I would also recommend the movie if one is inclined to learn more about America's most unpopular war for too many reasons to get into with this review.
Emotional, Gentle, Beautiful February 16, 2010
Little Me (Katy, Texas, USA)
The plot and the characters are a bit cliché, but I like it that way. The acting and story lines are very well done. The director gets it right in so many ways. The main character, a poor young man of mixed American / Vietnamese parentage, is both shy and strong. His mother is loving and faithful. Her, and later his, employers are haughty, exploitive, and distrustful. This results in an unfortunate accident and his immediate departure to Malaysia with his younger half brother. Enter the Chinese refugee (Bai Ling). Attractive, kind, and practical, she makes her way in life by living off her looks. Then onward to the cargo ship for the ocean voyage. The ruthless snakehead ultimately gets his just reward. The refugees make it to America. The work is menial. The undocumented immigrants fall in love, but to no avail. She hooks up with a white American businessman. He travels to Houston and then Sweetwater, Texas, where he finds his long suffering father (Nick Nolte). The past becomes tangible for both father and son. The story comes to a gentle end. Very cliché, but also very touching.
Great storytelling January 28, 2010
M (I wait behind the wall, gnawing away at your reality)
Just like the mixed-race offspring of white and black people (especially in the time of slavery), the biracial offspring of whites and Asians have had a lot to deal with in the past and even today.
This movie is rife with tragedy as one thing after another seems to go so bad. And none of it is even Binh's fault - you know the saying, sh** happens. A simple overreaction from the mistress of the manor in Vietnam and a genuine accident lead to her severe injury and apparently death. Binh is then forced to flee with his little half-brother, and the little kid doesn't fare so well on the arduous trip to America after they manage to escape a refugee camp with a pretty young lady. In America he is lied to so people can keep using him as labor because he is a illegal immigrant, until he finds out the truth.
I have to say that I was very disappointed in the ending. What is a blind man doing living by himself (in a trailer on his boss' ranch) and why would he leave the nice house he used to live in, and why was the woman at the house so bitter about him? It felt like a contrived plot device to me. His explanation of disappearing was sound, I'll give him that, but the least he could have done was send for his wife and child so they could be safer and happier in America, the government/army would have helped him with the paperwork. I would have given this movie a perfect five stars if it wasn't for the very disappointing ending as well as the whole 'blind handyman on the ranch' bit because honestly, if I was a rancher, I wouldn't want a blind man around (nothing against blind people, but this wasn't a good situation for a blind person to be in)
 Great Transaction December 27, 2009
Dennis E. Math (Western Wisconsin)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The perfect transaction. The movie arrived in perfect condition and should be shown to every child in school in this country so they won't all grow up as America haters like our current President who is growing hoarse apologizing for the "wrongs" America has done to the world. Great movie, despicable current President of whom we should all share shame for allowing into office.
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