The Beautiful Country

A Vietnamese man looking for a better life embarks on a dangerous and eye-opening voyage to America in this powerful drama set during the early '90s. In 1990, Binh (Damien Nguyen) is a man in his early twenties who has never known his parents, though he is clearly of mixed-race parentage, which ...more

Cinematically The Beautiful Country is a fairly conventional melodrama, but it's a very powerful and well-acted one, with an unusual story broaching sociopolitical topics too seldom explored in mainstream movies of the early 21st century. Although Nick Nolte (playing the protagonist's long-lost American father) received top billing for his small part, the film is really carried by Damien Nguyen in his role as the half-Vietnamese, half-American young man who undertakes an epic odyssey across ...more