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Thousand Pieces of Gold (1990)

Thousand Pieces of Gold (1990)

GENRESRomance,Western
LANGEnglish
ACTOR
Rosalind ChaoChris CooperMichael Paul ChanDennis Dun
DIRECTOR
Nancy Kelly

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Thousand Pieces of Gold (1990) is a English movie. Nancy Kelly has directed this movie. Rosalind Chao,Chris Cooper,Michael Paul Chan,Dennis Dun are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1990. Thousand Pieces of Gold (1990) is considered one of the best Romance,Western movie in India and around the world.

In 1880's China, young Lalu is sold into marriage by her impoverished father. Rather than becoming a bride, Lalu ends up in an Idaho gold-mining town, the property of a saloon owner who renames her China Polly and plans to sell her as entertainment for the locals. Refusing to become a whore, Lalu ultimately finds her own way in this strange country filled with white demons.

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Thousand Pieces of Gold (1990) Reviews

  • A Golden Piece of Drama

    Prof_Lostiswitz2002-08-07

    A gorgeous and very intelligent movie. Highly unusual to make a western from the Chinese point of view, also to make one from the woman's point of view. These people do it without sentimentality; there's never a false note in it. Lalu has three strikes against her: an ethnic Mongol in China, a woman in a male culture, a Chinese in America. Yet she can draw on her warrior traditions forb a sense of pride inaccessible to most of her compatriots. The relationships she gets into seem totally real; at the same time, there is no attempt to cover up the ugly reality of white racism (not that the Chinese men are much better than the Americans). This is how the old west must have been, and this movie gives us an honest and dramatic portrayal. It deserves to be much better known.

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  • Amazing dramatic performances

    goodbook_19791999-11-06

    One of the few movies i've seen where sex is not the bottom line or basis of the romance. It is tasteful and sweet in its depiction of an interracial relationship which develops around an actual friendship and ensues into a genuine emotional bond in the midst of semi-racially intolerant environment. The lead actor and actress produce an amazing performance of a romantic chemistry that is set in the bounds of respect, selfnessness, kindness, and deep affection. I give it a thumbs up, way, waaaaaaaaaaaaaay up.

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  • Harsh gloominess gives way to muted optimism

    tim_o_callaghan2001-12-20

    Gritty social realist story of Chinese woman Lalu who is sold into slavery in the late 19th century, and taken to a rough mining town in the American west. There she faces a series of humiliations, rejections and triumphs before finding at least a degree of happiness with a sympathetic saloon keeper. By turns both gloomy and sentimental (not necessarily a bad thing) issues of racism and feminism are very much to the fore.

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  • One of American Playhouse's finest

    HallmarkMovieBuff2007-04-12

    Although I haven't seen this since it was on TV over fifteen years ago, its memory came and struck me again tonight right out of the blue while I was eating dinner. I was so supremely impressed with this at the time I saw it on PBS that I have no trouble now remembering the title immediately, along with the names Rosalind Chao and Chris Cooper, even after all these years. So, I just had to come here now while I'm thinking of it and register my approval. If this were available on DVD, I'd buy it today. But it seems to me that what America really needs, entertainment-wise, is an American Playhouse anthology on DVD. If The American Film Theatre can put out a fourteen-volume anthology (in three sets), and if we can get "Fifty Years of Janus Films" in one giant collection, why not American Playhouse?

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  • Chao and Cooper have chemistry to spare

    dphelan-12007-03-01

    I wish this fantastic film were available on DVD. I own the VHS and find it more compelling with each viewing. Rosalind Chao and Chris Cooper ( who later went on to win an Academy Award) give topnotch performances and make me believe in the power of love and redemption. Their slowly building relationship in a hostile world and its low-key but very powerful denouement is a textbook in fine acting.The historical period has been covered before but never from the point of view of a Chinese immigrant woman. Lalu's courage, strength and intelligence as well as her sensuous exotic beauty are inspirational. As Charlie, Cooper gives a fine portrayal of a decent if flawed man who triumphs in the end. A real classic!

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