Pretty, for sure, in Stuart Dryburgh's glossy photography. A parentless Vietnamese peasant, shunned in his picturesque village as "bui doi" ("less than dust," the term reserved for children of American fathers), tracks down his mother in the big city, where she works as a housemaid for an old crab who soon slips on a puddle of water in slow-motion and cracks open her head, and then the hero's odyssey begins in earnest: to America the Beautiful in search of his father, through a Malaysian refugee camp, onto a slave ship bound for Manhattan, and finally hitchhiking on the road to Texas. Slow, quiet, pious, and a bit soppy. With Damien Nguyen, Bai Ling, Tim Roth, and Nick Nolte; directed by Hans Petter Moland. (2004) — Duncan Shepherd
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