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Bookmark this pageRed Corner (1997)
Director: Jon Avnet
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From Time Out Film Guide
A fundamental circumstance of the 20th century: the unjustly accused prisoner shut up in some vast, unknowable totalitarian penal system. Not really a predicament to be exploited as a vehicle for a film star (Gere, playing a media executive under arrest in contemporary China), nor one to be crudely decked out as melodrama, complete with heroine, bad guy and final courtroom shoot-out that puts everything to rights. But if you're curious to see what Darkness at Noon might have been like had Koestler written it for Mills & Boon...Author: BBa
Cast & crew
Director: Jon Avnet
Producer: Jon Avnet, Jordan Kerner, Charles Mulvehill, Rosalie Swedlin
Cast: Richard Gere, Bai Ling, Peter Donat, Byron Mann, Tsai Chin, Bradley Whitford, Robert Stanton full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 122 mins
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