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| Red Corner | 
 enlarge | Director: Jon Avnet
Actors: Richard Gere, Bai Ling, Bradley Whitford, Byron Mann, Peter Donat
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: Video
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Avg. Customer Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 20514
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Hifi Sound, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 122
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0792838211
UPC: 027616683236
EAN: 9780792838210
ASIN: 0792838211
Theatrical Release Date: October 31, 1997
Release Date: February 6, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: VHS. Ex-Video Rental with Original Artwork/Coverbox. Some coverboxes may be cut and inserted in a clear plastic case. Guaranteed to play.
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 GREAT MOVIE November 10, 2006
This movie is a very well acted movie. Everyone should see it. Richard Gere and Bai Ling are perfect in this movie. This movie gives you an insight to the Chinese Legal system.
 "Why Is The Bamboo Here" ~ Murder, Mystery And Romance Behind The Bamboo Curtain October 23, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
`Red Corner' released in '97 is a surprisingly taunt, entertaining and subdued romantic murder mystery.
Synopsis: Jack Moore (Richard Gere) is an American businessman entrapped within the Chinese Communist legal system. He awakens from a romantic one night stand to find himself accused of the grisly murder of a beautiful Chinese woman. A woman who also happens to be the daughter of a powerful Communist official, Jack pleas of innocence fall on deaf ears until he convinces his attorney Shen Yuelin (Ling Bai) that he is being framed. Can one lone female voice halt the powerful forces that seek the death of the American?
Richard Gere delivers a strong performance, but Ling Bai is the real star as the demure, yet strong willed and beautiful attorney. `Red Corner' is a little strong handed in its depiction of justice behind the Bamboo Curtain, but the story and romance make it well worth the time.
 Gere needs to find a more constructive raison d'etre October 11, 2006
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
The commercial was enough to raise my blood pressure and turn my stomach. I spent a year teaching English in Mainland China. Unfortunately, I didn't visit Tibet and I don't want to seem unsympathetic to their plight. It's just that America and Hollywood, which is often a symptom of America, need to get off this self-righteous kick of trying to enlighten the rest of the world and tell everyone else how they should live.
Contrast this with the plot in Red Corner: When an American "teacher" in my group got his 14 year-old student pregnant he was quietly sent home and she got kicked out of school for a year. If a visiting Chinese teacher got an American 14 year-old pregnant he probably would have gone to prison.
I want encourage those who would consider jumping on Gere's bandwagon how they might react in the actual event of the following hypothetical scenarios. ALL I HAVE DONE IS REVERSE THE NATIONALITIES.
1.Gere's Chinese counterpart, aging heartthrob Chow Yun Fat befriends descendents of Hawaii's deposed royal family and goes on a righteous crusade to re-instate them as monarchy and give Hawaii back to the native people.
2.Jet Li writes, produces, and stars in Yankee Justice. Li plays a Chinese US citizen wrongly accused of spying. Under the Patriot Act Li is whisked away to a secret location in Eastern Europe, without due process, for an indefinite period. Li is manacled, shackled and smacked around repeatedly while being interrogated. He manages to get just free enough to launch a surprise attack and kick some serious Homeland Securities. He makes a dramatic escape into the night and hops on the Orient Express. He disembarks in Beijing where kisses the ground and begs for repatriation. He is hailed as a hero and a martyr.
3.A paramilitary group launches a coup d'etat against Jeb Bush, attempts to seal off the Florida peninsula, and secede from the US. Even though America's military is busy fighting over something in Iraq it's nothing we can't handle. But wait! Mainland China remembering America's generous support for the Guomindang (Kuomintang) when they fled to Taiwan decides to send soldiers to support Florida's independence. Since their population is about five times that of the US, and increasingly male, they can spare a few troops. A bit of historical trivia; before China "acquired" Taiwan it was inhabited by 16 tribes of indigenous people whom they decimated. Sound a little like American history?
I hope to eventually to return to China to visit friends. For the record I am much more concerned about being a victim of random violence in the US than being framed by the PLA (The People's Liberation Army). By the way one of my Chinese students, here in the US, was the victim of a random murder last year. I know it's not exotic, glamorous, or sexy, but Americans should be more concerned about random violence, corporate corruption, social security, and universal healthcare. These issues will affect just about every American in some way at some point.
Great movie!!! August 23, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was a wonderful movie. There's international drama, suspense, and love. How can you complain.
Check it out!
WC
Great Movie July 24, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
2 Those who say "what about the u.s. court" "not everybody in china is corrupt" Shut the HELL UP. its not about any of those things, its about a big shot who has his girl fall quickly in love with a american, who lost and has no family, there then the big shot has connections and kills her, & frames him. love, romance, is what drives this movie, not corruption. its just that he was framed 2 the point that everybody, except his lawyer thought he was guilty, there is some people who are corrupt, but at the end, its shown that everybody was infact thinking he was it, they never even thoght he was innocent. all in all, i wasnt looking 4 a thriller, romance, or how the goverment was or is in china(dont know), but i was looking 4 some entertaiment, something creative, and most inportantly i was wanting to watch something that can get me hooked from begining to end and i did, the lady that defended him was great in this movie, she put the spot light on herself an took it away from richard as she deserves a oscer. PERIOD.
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