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1 May 1992 (USA) morePlot:
Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Lightweight film that doesn't have the depth for its serious subject moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Greta Scacchi | ... | Judith |
 | Joan Chen | ... | Minou |
| Jack Thompson | ... | Ralph |
| Art Malik | ... | Kanan |
| Norman Kaye | ... | Hobday |
| Victoria Longley | ... | Sancha |
| Martin Jacobs | ... | Richard |
| William McInnes | ... | Minder |
| George Whaley | ... | Bill |
| Andrew Ferguson | ... | David |
| Daniel De Leur | ... | Peter |
| Celia Wong | ... | Amah |
| Monroe Reimers | ... | Mohammed |
| Stuart Campbell | ... | Nigel |
 | Kee Chan | ... | Behzad |
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In a nutshell: Greta Scacchi uses the heart-wrenching plight of the Vietnamese boat people to get a fabulous tan.
OK, that's an exaggeration, but the film suffers from a lack of heft. Its intentions are good, and its heart is in the right place, but....
Very much in the same manner as a porn film, which would only muster the most minimal plotline to move the film from sex scene to sex scene, this is almost a documentary with the minimal plot necessary to justify making a movie about the subject. The performers are lightweights, as well, many of them (notably Joan Chen) just barely able to deliver a line with credible inflections. The acting is so stilted and superficial, watching this movie is like listening to a Van Damme impersonating contest on Saturday Night Live.
Sadly, it's not bright enough to be an art film, and not slick enough to be a popular entertainment. I don't know who they thought their audience might be.
Despite possessing such rich emotional material, the filmmakers failed to strike the powerful chord which should have been inherent in the situation.