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Overview

User Rating:
7.1/10   1,967 votes
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Director:
Tony Bui
Writers:
Timothy Linh Bui (story)
Tony Bui (story)
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Release Date:
30 April 1999 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
An American in Ho Chi Minh City looks for a daughter he fathered during the war. He meets Woody, a child who's a street vendor... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
7 wins & 4 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(3 articles)
Cristina's Court: Syndicated TV Show Cancelled after Three Seasons
 (From TVSeriesFinale. 10 February 2009, 6:37 PM, PST)

Jessica Biel’s Sideboob is Here!
 (From Ugo MovieBlog. 9 December 2008, 5:06 PM, PST)

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Three Bitter and Beautiful Metaphoric Tales in the Contemporary Ho Chi Minh more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Ngoc Hiep Nguyen ... Kien An
Ngoc Minh ... Truck Driver
Phat Trieu Hoang ... Huy, Dao's Headman
Diem Kieu ... Singing Lotus Woman
Hanh Kieu ... Giang

Duong Don ... Hai, Cyclo Driver
Huu Duoc Nguyen ... Woody, Child Street Peddler
Hong Son Le ... Binh, Cyclo Driver
Ba Quang Nguyen ... Don, Cyclo Driver
Huu Su Tran ... Ngon, Cyclo Driver
Duc Hung Luong ... Minh, Cyclo Driver

Harvey Keitel ... James Hager
Diep Bui ... Lan the Hooker (as Zoe Bui)
Hoang Trieu ... Man Who Chases Lan #1
Tran Long ... Man Who Chases Lan #2
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Ba mua (Vietnam)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for thematic elements.
Runtime:
113 min | USA:104 min | Germany:105 min (German version)
Country:
Vietnam | USA
Language:
English | Vietnamese
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Filming Locations:
Vietnam

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Trivia:
The first American film to be made in Vietnam after Bill Clinton lifted the embargo. The filmmakers were followed by Vietnamese inspectors throughout filming. more
Soundtrack:
Woody's Blues more

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8 out of 9 people found the following comment useful:-
Three Bitter and Beautiful Metaphoric Tales in the Contemporary Ho Chi Minh, 19 February 2005
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Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In the contemporary Ho Chi Minh, former Saigon, Kien An (Ngoc Hiep Nguyen) is a worker hired to gather and sell lotus for her master, Professor Dao (Manh Cuong Tran). Dao was a handsome poet, who is dying of leprosy. He lost his fingers, and Kien offers herself to write his poetries for him. Hai (Don Duong) is a tricycle-taxi driver, who falls in love for the expensive hooker Lan (Diep Bui). Woody is a homeless little child, working as street peddler of watches, cigarette lighters and other minor goods, who has his wallet stolen. He believes that the thief is James Hager (Harvey Keitel), a former marine who is looking for his daughter with a Vietnamese woman during the war. These three parallel bitter and beautiful stories present in a metaphoric view, the transition of the political and economical system of Vietnam. Professor Dao represents the traditional system, the communism, rotten and dying. Lan is a metaphoric view of the transition to the capitalism, corrupted, aimed and unattainable for most of the poor population. Woody and the little girl represent the next generations of excluded of the new wild system, fighting for the survival and having no perspective in life. James Hager would be the return of the American interests in Vietnam. I am intrigued with the title of this film: "Three Seasons". The lotus means the spring, the hard rain means the winter; the fallen leaves, the autumn. Where is the summer and why is it missing? "Three Seasons" is a highly recommended movie, open to the most different interpretations by the viewers. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Três Estações" ("Three Seasons")

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