Red Corner
Updated June 26, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
| Director: | Jon Avnet |
| Writer: | Robert King |
| Director of Photography: | Karl Walter Lindenlaub |
| Editor: | Peter E. Berger |
| Music: | Thomas Newman |
| Production Designer: | Richard Sylbert |
| Producers: | Jon Avnet, Jordan Kerner, Charles B. Mulvehill and Rosalie Swedlin |
| MGM; R; 119 minutes | |
| Release: | 10/97 |
| Cast: | Richard Gere, Bai Ling, Jessey Meng, Tsai Chin and James Hong |
On one hand, Red Corner succeeds in overtly criticizing China's repressive policies, but overall, the film fails because it also wants to be a Hollywood legal thriller. The combination simply does not work. Hotshot American lawyer Jack Moore (Gere) travels to China to seal a billion-dollar satellite TV deal and ends up with a dead Chinese model in bed with him after a night of heavy drinking and sex. Moore is arrested and finds he's in big trouble, with the wheels of justice clearly not spinning in his favor. His public-defender attorney, Shen Yuelin (Ling), begins to believe he was framed, bails him out and puts everything on the table to prove Moore's innocence.
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