The Beautiful Country

Binh grew up in a Vietnamese village, pushed out because his father was an American soldier. He leaves the household where he works as a servant and goes to Ho Chi Minh City to find his mother. They meet. Then there is an accident in the house and Binh has to run, taking his small brother Tam with him. A refugee camp in Malaysia, then the hold of a ship, then working off a debt in New York. The man he is looking for lives in Texas: the father he has never seen. Hans Petter Moland directs; two hours and seventeen minutes, with Damien Nguyen as Binh and Nick Nolte as the father, and Bai Ling and Tim Roth in the cast. The film comes out of the story of the children born in Vietnam after the war whom neither side would claim.