Just perfect...

Best movie ever!

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

The Beautiful Country Is a very well made & interesting film of a Vietnamese lad (about 20 yrs old) & his search for his American father. I have no way of knowing how true this story may or may not be, This should not deter you from seeing this poignant drama.Nick Nolte is the American Father of the lad portrayed byDamien Nguyen.He is just nothing short of excellent. Nick Nolte again proves what a fine actor he is in a short but excellent portrayal.The only other name actor is Tim Roth as the Captain of the ship that takes our intrepid young hero to America. Tim Roth also gives another fine performance. His role like Nick Nolte's is small.The other members of the cast are unknowns (to me), but are very good. The cinematography is excellent as well as the other technical credits.This is a good movie & should be seen,Rating: *** (out of 4)--88 points (out of 100) IMDb 8 (out of 10)

Young Vietnamese Binh thought that he was an orphan. But he was wrong. When he was told that his mother was still alive, he decided to find her. He had a short peaceful life with his mother until an accident broke it. His mother urged him to look for his birth father who lived in USA.Their ship suffered big stormy waves in the midway. Unluckily they were taken to Malaysia refugee camp. With the help from a Chinese girl named Ling, Binh took a ship that was leaving for America. In fact severer tests were waiting for him.As what old saying says, nothing in the world is difficult for one who is set to do it. The movie gave us a good example. Although it is a movie, it is still uplifting.Damien Nguyen's plain performance was the shining point of the movie. He had a good interpretation for the hero. Although Nick Nolte appeared for only about ten minutes, he showed me what a good actor could do.An excellent drama. 8/10

I just saw this movie today, although it's been in release here for several weeks, I think. I was deeply moved.This is truly a beautiful movie: above all about Beauty and Ugliness. The main character, Binh, we're told very early in the movie, is Ugly; his mother is Beautiful; and the rest of the film displays a constant tension between the question What is Beauty? and the question What is Ugliness? The hooker's looks contrast sharply with Binh's. The limpid, natural beauty of Vietnam contrasts sharply with the cold, commercial ugliness of New York. The ugly interior of the ship contrasts sharply with the beauty of the sea. The culminating sequence in which Binh finds his father also says things about perception of Ugliness and Beauty that I don't think I can comment too much on without, perhaps, giving too much of the story away.The actor who played Binh was truly superb, in my opinion. Nick Nolte was excellent, but really more of a cameo; Binh is the main character in the story, and carries his persona well.I do have to note some disappointing features.First, it is perhaps natural in a movie about Vietnam not to include social commentary on ethnicity and race. Yet the 100% uniform (no exception, as far as I know) depiction of White Anglos as either racist or exploitive or both, is literally racist. I guess this kind of depiction is "PC" but if so, frankly it's time for "PC" to grow up. No one who's actually been to Texas, for example, would think that all white Texans go around calling everybody else "boy". Please. This kind of obvious inauthenticity is bound to call into question much else in the film's racial and ethnic commentary.There were some technical problems. In the open boat, when Binh awakes to find a fruit floating in the water, he looks first to his left, then to his right, and only then straight ahead to find land prominently on the horizon directly in front of him. It's a small thing but very inauthentic. People tend to look dead ahead first, not to the side. And a few other items like this too I think, can't recall offhand, but I remember noticing them at the time.But none of this detracts from the overall beauty of The Beautiful Country ... and the complex and challenging examination it poses of Beauty and Ugliness in many, many expressions. A wonderful movie.

The children of American GI's in Vietnam were treated as second-class citizens – walking symbols of American control, destruction, and occupation. Binh (Damien Nguyen) lives with a foster family, can only eat their leftovers, and longs to find his own family, including the mother who couldn't support him and the American father he never knew. With only a picture of his parents, he leaves the village in search of his roots.Binh finds his mother (and a young half brother) in Saigon, but after a deadly accident, he and his new brother are forced to flee the city and the country in search of America. Binh endures the purgatory of a Malaysian refugee camp and survives the hell of an illegal slave ship.His travels are extraordinary and devastating, but the character of Binh is reason enough to see this incomparable epic. He has lived his life as an outcast, full of sorrow and shame. He rarely has the courage to look other people in the eye. But every catastrophic event in his journey brings him strength and courage, so that by the time he finds his father, he's man enough to face him. Or is he?