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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
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 34902
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Vietnamese (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 125 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: COLD10865D
ISBN: 1404979824
UPC: 043396108653
EAN: 9781404979826
ASIN: B000BMY2KQ
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Release Date: December 13, 2005
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Product Description
This tells the emotional story of a young boy (half vietnamese half american) who leaves his mother his native land & all that he knows as he stows away on a boat headed for america. The emotional journey will not only lead him to his father but to a new life in a brand new world. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/22/2007 Starring: Nick Nolte Bai Ling Run time: 125 minutes Rating: R Director: Hans Peter Moland
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 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 1 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.
The Beautiful Country September 12, 2009
Richard L. Thomas
Sensitive, intriguing, hooks you into the story of this kind man looking for his place in the world.
What is in the heart June 14, 2007
LGwriter (Astoria, N.Y. United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
There is much sadness in this drama. It is a story of an outsider--in this case, a bui doi, or "less than dust". This is someone of mixed parentage, specifically, Vietnamese and American, but living in Vietnam. His name is Binh and as the film begins, we see him in search of both his parents, neither of whom he knows.
He finds his mother locally, but also finds out his father is back in America, after marrying his mother in Vietnam. The reasons for his father's abrupt departure are mysterious, which drives the story, as does Binh's meeting Ling, a Chinese woman in search of a better life who, like Binh, also travels to America.
The sadness here penetrates directly to the heart. Ling has feelings for Binh but at the same time wants a life Binh can never give her. Binh has a very young brother, Tam, who accompanies him on his journey to America, during which deep sadness overtakes the two brothers. And when Binh finally does find his father in America, it is a sad reunion for several reasons.
The soul of this story is its simplicity, which is communicated expertly by Hans Molland (director of "Zero Kelvin" and "Aberdeen") and screenwriter Sabina Murray, who supplies an interview for the DVD. The acting is straightforward and effective; included in the cast is Tim Roth and Nick Nolte, as well as a number of unknown Asian actors, and Bai Ling as Ling. Molland is an interesting director who effectively fuses man, nature, and deep emotions. In "Zero Kelvin", this combination had the frigid setting of a polar region; in "The Beautiful Country", it is the hardships of life at sea--the journey from Asia to America via freighter.
This is a great piece of cinematic work that should not be overlooked. Very highly recommended.
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