Beyond Rangoon1995
Beyond Rangoon (1995)
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Cast
as Laura Bowman
as Andy Bowman
as Jeremy Watt
as U Aung Ko
as Mr. Scott
as Aung San Suu Kyi
as Desk Clerk
as Colonel
as Sein Htoo
as Zaw Win
as Zabai
as Min Han
as Karen Father
as Older Karen Boy
as Younger Karen Boy
as Check Point Soldier at Train
as Check Point Soldier at Train
as Check Point Soldier at Train
as Laura's Husband
as Laura's Son
as Officer Min
as Birdman
as Woman Tourist
as Young Sula Woman
as Village Headman
as River Trader
as Karen Leader
as Fuel Vendor
as Rapist
as BLK Beret Major
as BLK Beret Sergeant
as Secret Police Officer
as Bandana Man
as Australian Doctor
as Aung Ko's Daughter
as Photographer
as Young Monk/Soldier
as Burmese Official
as Cig Soldier
as Aung Ko's Helper
as Burmese Soldier
as Sule Aide/Buddah Monk
as French Boy
as French Mother
as French Father
as Sula Commander
as Sule Officer
as Hotel Guest
as Village Woman
as Aung Ko's Friend
Critic Reviews for Beyond Rangoon
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Arquette gives the kind of mighty physical performance usually delivered by men in existential action classics like "The Wages of Fear," but she suffuses it with something all her own-she's bulletproof yet vulnerable.
In attempting to make its politics palatable as entertainment, the film has grafted them onto a boatload of Hollywood implausibilities whose excesses cripple believability.
As an exercise in art, or even polemics, Beyond Rangoon is beyond redemption, but still works its occasional magic with extraordinary flair.
Yet one more film -- that defines Third World political unrest through its effect on a white liberal.
Boorman's metaphysical musings might work if he integrated them more fully into his film, instead of making them secondary to action sequences.
An odd movie, brilliant in places, but frustrating all the same.
Audience Reviews for Beyond Rangoon
In "Beyond Rangoon," sisters Laura(Patricia Arquette) and Andy(Frances McDormand) travel to Burma in 1988 to help Laura get over the murder of her husband and son. Sleepless one night, Laura stumbles across a pro-democracy protest led by Aung San Suu Kyi(Adelle Lutz). It is there that she has her passport conveniently stolen and is forced to stay behind while Andy continues on to Thailand. While she waits to have a replacement passport made, Laura decides to do some sightseeing, enlisting U Aung Ko(U Aung Ko) to drive her. If it is true that the road to mediocre films is built on good intentions, then "Beyond Rangoon" is a perfect example. Set at an important time in Burma's history and made at a time when not a lot of information was getting out due to the military junta's total control, then the movie serves a purpose to dramatize these events. However, by working in a highly contrived story that closely resembles an epic psychiatric session, it also manages to trivialize them at the same time. But the cinematography is very lovely. At any rate, it would not be until the documentary "Burma VJ" that we would get the clearest picture of what is going on inside Burma.
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Good story and performances.
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A beautiful movie!
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