Fresh
An honest, sensitive story from a Vietnamese point of view.
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle
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Green Dragon
Overview
A tale about Vietnamese refugees sent to an orientation camp on the Camp Pendleton Marine Base in California, 'Green Dragon' focuses on a young boy and his sister. Set in 1975, the film chronicles the stories told to the two children by other refugees in the camp and of Tai Tran, who dares to introduce himself to Sergeant Jim Lance. In developing a relationship with Lance, Tran is able to improve
Director and cast
- Timothy Linh Bui Director
- Patrick Swayze as Gunnery Sergeant Jim Lance
- Forest Whitaker as Addie
- Đơn Dương as Tai Tran
- Hiep Thi Le as Thuy Hoa
- Billinjer C. Tran as Duc (as Billinjer Tran)
- Kathleen Luong as Second Wife
- Phuoc Quan Nguyen as Loi
- Long Nguyen as Quang Hai
- Catherine Ai as Hien
- Kieu Chinh as Kieu
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
63%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Earnest, unsubtle and Hollywood-predictable, Green Dragon is still a deeply moving effort to put a human face on the travail of thousands of Vietnamese.
Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News
Rotten
Just when the movie seems confident enough to handle subtlety, it dives into soapy bathos.
Gene Seymour, Newsday
Rotten
Plays as hollow catharsis, with lots of tears but very little in the way of insights.
Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly
Fresh
A lyrical, bittersweet film about what could be termed a by-product of battle.
Megan Turner, New York Post
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