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Driven apart after the tragic death of their little girl, Chris and Kate are still mourning her loss five years later. Maggie's killer, Jason, who was sixteen when he took her life, will be released from prison on his twenty-first birthday. A mysterious young woman follows Chris, and watches as he meets with a private investigator, a week before Jason's release. The young woman claims to be a newspaper reporter, and offers to help Chris uncover information about his daughter's killer. Chris reluctantly agrees, but soon learns that the young woman is not who she pretends to be, and by the time he discovers who she really is and what her true intentions are, he may have gone too far down the path of vengeance to turn back.
The gateway to vengeance is a hollow heart
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Lucky Lotus is a successful hostess bar in Los Angeles, California where men go for good conversation and companionship. Cong is the mama-san owner in charge of its operation who also plays mother hen to all the girls who work there. Having escaped from Vietnam, Cong worked hard to achieve the American Dream and amass her self-made fortune. A business-minded woman who always appreciates a great bottle of champagne and the faithful customers who purchase them, Cong revels in the fact that she went from having nothing to having everything - a lucrative business, a beautiful home in the hills, and an obedient daughter who will one day take her place as Lucky Lotus' mama-san. Her daughter, Lien, inherited her people skills and beauty and is consequently one of the most popular hostess girls. Life couldn't be more perfect, that is, until Cong discovers that her daughter Lien has plans of leaving Lucky Lotus behind for life in New York City. Cong simply does not understand why her daughter would want to venture into a foreign city, especially when there is a stable business with guaranteed income right in front of her. Tension runs high as Cong attempts to thwart her daughter's plans to leave. Faced with the prospect of forever alienating and losing her daughter, Cong must come to terms with her daughter's aspirations, proving that maybe, one is never too old to grow up.
Come to Lucky Lotus. I buy you drink, you buy me drink.
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A child's resilience and the kindness of strangers. Thuy is 10, an orphan, working in her uncle's factory outside Saigon. He berates her constantly, so she runs away to Saigon. Over five days, we watch her survive on the streets selling flowers, while her uncle looks for her. She encounters Hai, a reserved zoo-keeper whose fiancée has jilted him. She also sells a flower to Lan, a flight attendant in the city for a layover, unlucky in love, who buys dinner for Thuy and offers her a place to stay that night. Thuy, who thinks of Lan as a sparrow and Hai as an owl, determines to bring them together. If she succeeds, then what; and what about her uncle?
Keywords: affair, animal-in-title, backpack, bamboo, banana, bird-in-title, broken-engagement, card-trick, child-labor, cigarette-smoking
An orphan girl plays matchmaker to a flight attendant and lonely zoo keeper.
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A child's resilience and the kindness of strangers. Thuy is 10, an orphan, working in her uncle's factory outside Saigon. He berates her constantly, so she runs away to Saigon. Over five days, we watch her survive on the streets selling flowers, while her uncle looks for her. She encounters Hai, a reserved zoo-keeper whose fiancée has jilted him. She also sells a flower to Lan, a flight attendant in the city for a layover, unlucky in love, who buys dinner for Thuy and offers her a place to stay that night. Thuy, who thinks of Lan as a sparrow and Hai as an owl, determines to bring them together. If she succeeds, then what; and what about her uncle?
Keywords: affair, animal-in-title, backpack, bamboo, banana, bird-in-title, broken-engagement, card-trick, child-labor, cigarette-smoking
An orphan girl plays matchmaker to a flight attendant and lonely zoo keeper.
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This is the story of teenage girl Steph, who is brought up by her fiery aunt Jude after her pregnant mother Jass and Vietnamese father are killed in a car crash. The arrival of her late mother's diary reveals the colorful, sexy secrets of Jude and the foreman Alan that allow Steph to reinvent her vision of the world.
The closer you look, the more you will find.
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From Ha Noi, those young guys join army to protest their country. They left behind their family, love, youth and carried hopes, faith and dreams. Van is poem. May (means Lucky) always smiles. Manh is just a kid. Lam is secret agent in city. Their own stories are told by a lot of people who survive after Vietnamese War, from both of sides.
Keywords: saigon
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Straight-laced, honest Japanese travel agent Misuzu gets a job as a tour guide so that she can the world. On her first assignment in Bangkok, Thailand she does her best for her ungrateful charges, but gets fired when the hotel (through no fault of her own) misplaces all their passports. She also finds herself the victim of a scam by two Japanese con-artists (innocent-looking Tondabayashi and half-Thai Thuy) living in Bangkok. When the hotel finds the passports, she decides to buck the system and sell them on the black market. She teams up with the two con-artists to scam, rip off and rob all the Japanese tourists in Bangkok. They keep trying to pull off bigger and bigger jobs, and end up in trouble with two dumb, sightseeing yakuza, among others. Also, a love triangle forms as Tondabayashi falls for Misuzu, and Misuzu falls for the older Thuy.
Keywords: con-artist, thailand
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Based on the diary of an unknown Viet Cong soldier, this film provides a sympathetic look at a Viet Cong soldier who protected a captured American soldier whom he believed did not kill him when the American had the opportunity.
Keywords: army, based-on-journal, explosion, gunfire, helicopter, independent-film, jungle, machine-gun, narration, prisoner-of-war
The deadliest chunk of real estate in the world.
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Colonel James Braddock has a Vietnamese wife who was supposed to leave Vietnam with him when they evacuate. But she loses her papers and wasn't allowed in the embassy. Braddock went looking for her and her friend took the bracelet Braddock gave his wife and was in an explosion. When Braddock finds the body with bracelet, he assumes it's his wife so he leaves Vietnam. 12 years later a Reverend in Vietnam who was visiting the States approaches Braddock telling him that his wife is alive and that he has a son. Braddock doesn't believe him at first but when a man at the CIA asks him to meet with him, Braddock realizes it's true. So he tries to get them out. So he contacts a friend in Thailand to get what he needs. As they are about to leave, the CIA tries to stop him but Braddock gets away, gets his equipment and heads to Vietnam. When he arrives he goes to the orphanage for Amerasian children, where the Reverend works. He takes him to them and is surprised to see them and his son resents him cause he thinks he abandoned them. They try to leave but a Vietnamese Colonel takes them, he kills his wife and subjects Braddock to torture. Braddock escapes with his son, whom he says to go to the orphanage. The Colonel goes there and takes the Reverend and the children to a prison. Braddock then tries to rescue them.
Keywords: action-hero, airplane, ak-47, ambush, amerasian, arms-tied-overhead, attempted-rape, bar-brawl, bar-fight, bare-chested-male
He's fighting for everyone who can't fight back.
I don't step on peoples toes. I break their necks!
Mik: Vietnam - I never thought I'd be coming back - I guess we never really CAN leave, can we?
Lin Tan Cang: [Lin, Braddock's Vietnamese wife, has been waiting 13 years for his return] Oh, it doesn't matter.
Gen. Quoc: You must pay for the crimes you have committed against my country!
Gen. Quoc: Braddock! Braddock! Boogie Eye! Boogie Eye!
Littlejohn: Braddock! I'm warning you, don't step on any toes.::Col. James Braddock: I don't step on toes, Littlejohn, I step on necks.
Col. James Braddock: Walk or crawl, we're gonna make it!
Littlejohn: I warned you Braddock not to fuck with us.::Col. James Braddock: Don't try to stop me Littlejohn.::Littlejohn: You're stopped.
Gen. Quoc: I have tested many before, Braddock, and no one has lasted even an hour. Maybe you can be the first, eh?::Col. James Braddock: I'll do whatever you want. Just let the boy go.::Gen. Quoc: You will do what I want... anyways.
Gen. Quoc: [preparing to torture Braddock] You will find your first test quite challenging.
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Based on the true story of film actress Ina Balin and her efforts with American Red Cross volunteer Betty Tisdale (Shirley Jones) as well as a compassionate Vietnamese woman running a Saigon orphange to rescue as many orphaned children and fly them out of the country before the city falls to the communists in the spring of 1975.
Coordinates: 43°15′33″N 0°14′42″E / 43.2592°N 0.245°E / 43.2592; 0.245
Thuy is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.
Thuy is a very common name in Vietnam for girls; meaning 'pure' in Vietnamese
Thủy Tiên is a Vietnamese language pop singer from southern Vietnam. She appears on the long running Vietnamese diaspora variety show Paris By Night. Before emigrating from Vietnam she used to form a popular duet with fellow Paris By Night singer Thế Sơn.
THUY
no one must ever see
this thing you're showing me
that bastard fouls our name
my baby's not to blame
for what I've done
THUY
you must decide upon
which side you're really on
you whored to make this kid
that isn't what I did
don't touch my son
THUY
you must seem how it is when you're my wife
having that child of his brands us for life
no alternative! This child cannot live!
(THUY pulls a knife, threatening the boy.)
you will not touch him
don't touch my boy
he's what I live for
he's my only joy
KIM THUY
you will not touch him he is my enemy
it's he turns you from me
don't touch my boy erase him from your life
even your memory
he's what I live for he's one drop in a flood
left here to taint our blood
he's my only joy our marriage bond was sworn
forget that he was born
(KIM pulls out a gun)
KIM THUY
of course you have a gun
don't touch my little boy and now you'll shoot your cousin'
and it's a U.S. gun
and do not test my will a gun that lost the war
you're the corrupted one
I'm warning you, for him I'll kill go on and shoot! Don't wait
to save your bastard son
you must not hesitate
the earth moves where I stand
I feel the turning of a wheel
I feel nothing in my hand
not even the feel of steel
you will not take my child...
THUY
you don't know how to kill
I have no other choice
what I must do I will
(she shoots THUY and, at the same moment, the street pageant continues
in the street outside.)
CROWD
this is the hour
this is our land
we found the power
in our brother's hand
and from a storm
CROWD
pierced with light
fierce and white
the lightning came
a bright'ning flame
to end the night
(a gigantic statue of Ho Chi Minh is raised in the square outside.)
one man to heed us
each girl, each boy
one voice to lead us
in a song of joy
this is the hour
this is the land
(in the room, KIM stares at THUY'S body.)
(KIM puts the gun, her family shrine and a few valuables in a sack and,
taking TAM by the hand, escapes.)