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Directed by | Jon Avnet |
Written by | Robert King |
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Cinematography | Karl Walter Lindenlaub |
Edited by | Peter E. Berger |
Music by | Thomas Newman |
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Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 122 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $48 million[1] |
Box office | $22,415,440 (USA) |
Red Corner is a 1997 American mystery thriller film directed by Jon Avnet, and starring Richard Gere, Bai Ling and Bradley Whitford. Written by Robert King, the film is about an American businessman in China who ends up wrongfully on trial for murder. His only hope of exoneration and freedom is a female defense lawyer from the country.[2] The film received the 1997 National Board of Review Freedom of Expression Award (Richard Gere, Jon Avnet) and the NBR Award for Breakthrough Female Performance (Bai Ling). Ling also won the San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress.[3]