Monsoon (2019) on Netflix
NR20191h 25mDramaHistoryRomance
Kit left Saigon as a boat refugee at six. More than three decades later he comes back to scatter his parents' ashes, and meets his cousin Lee and Lewis, an American.
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- Netflix3.7/5
- IMDb6.0/102,595 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes87%
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Plot summary
Kit was six years old when his family escaped Saigon as boat refugees after the Vietnam War. More than thirty years on, he comes back to a country he cannot remember and a language he cannot speak, taking in his surroundings as a tourist would. He wants to find a place to scatter his parents' ashes, a search that takes him from Saigon to Hanoi. Along the way he reconnects with Lee, a cousin and childhood friend, and gets to know Linh, a Vietnamese student, and Lewis, an American clothing designer whose father fought in the war. Kit arranges an online date with Lewis.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Monsoon (2019)
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- The character of Lewis, an African American in the finished film, began as Hank, a white American, during four years of rewrites with the BFI and BBC Films; director Hong Khaou said executives and financiers felt the dominant white American voice of the war's subtext had been heard before.
