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CAST & CREW
Don Duong, Patrick Swayze, Forest Whitaker
Directed by Timothy Linh Bui
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SYNOPSIS
GREEN DRAGON takes place during the close of the Vietnam War, at Camp Pendleton, a US military base in California that was a temporary home to thousands of South Vietnamese refugees. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, some disturbing situations, nudity, and language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 53 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: May 1, 2002
Video: Sep 10, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Silver Nitrate Films
GENRE
Dramas, Vietnam, 1970s
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Green Dragon Site
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 "An inspiring and heart-affecting film about the desperate attempts of Vietnamese refugees living in U.S. relocation camps to keep their hopes alive in 1975."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
 "In the telling of a story largely untold, Bui chooses to produce something that is ultimately suspiciously familiar."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"The Bai brothers have taken an small slice of history and opened it up for all of us to understand, and they’ve told a nice little story in the process."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"The somber pacing and lack of dramatic fireworks make Green Dragon seem more like medicine than entertainment."
-- Daniel Eagan, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"A gushy episode of "M*A*S*H" only this time from an Asian perspective."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"Begins like a docu-drama but builds its multi-character story with a flourish."
-- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
"A deeply felt and vividly detailed story about newcomers in a strange new world."
-- Joe Leydon, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"The film's bathos often overwhelms what could have been a more multifaceted look at this interesting time and place."
-- Kim Morgan, OREGONIAN
"Green Dragon falls prey to some threadbare Hollywood conventions, but otherwise maintains a high level of maturity and emotion as it examines the lives of Vietnamese refugees entering America in 1975."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
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-- Gregory Avery, NITRATE ONLINE
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"Flawed but worthy look at life in U.S. relocation camps."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"Plays as hollow catharsis, with lots of tears but very little in the way of insights."
-- Ernest Hardy, L.A. WEEKLY
"Often moving and explores the discomfort inherent in the contacts between the American 'hosts' and their 'guests.'"
-- Andy Klein, NEW TIMES
"In the end, the film feels homogenized and a bit contrived, as if we're looking back at a tattered and ugly past with rose-tinted glasses."
-- Max Messier, FILMCRITIC.COM
"Although tender and touching, the movie would have benefited from a little more dramatic tension and some more editing."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"I've yet to find an actual Vietnam War combat movie actually produced by either the North or South Vietnamese, but at least now we've got something pretty damn close."
-- Ron Wells, FILM THREAT
No review available.
-- Philip Martin, ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
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FRESH 67%
Avg. Rating: 6.7/10 |
"The images are usually abbreviated in favor of mushy obviousness and telegraphed pathos, particularly where Whitaker's misfit artist is concerned."
-- Michael Atkinson, VILLAGE VOICE
"A conventional but heartwarming tale."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"Drives for the same kind of bittersweet, conciliatory tone that Three Seasons achieved but loses its way in rhetorical excess and blatant sentimentality."
-- Dave Kehr, NEW YORK TIMES
"[A] strong and touching film."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"Just when the movie seems confident enough to handle subtlety, it dives into soapy bathos."
-- Gene Seymour, NEWSDAY
"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
"A gracious, eloquent film that by its end offers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and resist living in a past forever lost."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"A lyrical, bittersweet film about what could be termed a by-product of battle."
-- Megan Turner, NEW YORK POST
"An honest, sensitive story from a Vietnamese point of view."
-- Bruce Westbrook, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
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-- Robert Denerstein, DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
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