Red Corner (1997) on Netflix
Jack Moore is in Beijing for a business deal when a woman is found dead in his hotel room. He is charged with the murder. His court-appointed lawyer is Shen Yuelin.
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Plot summary
Jack Moore, an American attorney, comes to Beijing to finalize a business agreement with the Chinese government. His company's rival for the contract is HoffCo Telecom, a German firm. Before anything is signed, police find a woman dead in Moore's hotel room, alerted by a report of a scream he did not hear; the deal goes to HoffCo instead. The dead woman is a general's daughter. The case involves people in high places, and Moore faces a court system that seems to have already decided against a foreigner. He does not trust Shen Yuelin, the young lawyer appointed to defend him, who has always understood her role as carrying out government policy.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Red Corner (1997)
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- China's Ministry of Radio, Film and Television sent a memo to Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, banning cooperation with MGM/United Artists, Disney and Columbia TriStar, the studios behind Red Corner, Kundun and Seven Years in Tibet.
- The video of Chinese prisoners being executed shown in Red Corner was an actual execution. The courtroom and prison scenes were recreated from descriptions by attorneys and judges practicing in China, and the people who gave director Jon Avnet the footage and descriptions took a significant risk.
- While in production, director Jon Avnet filed suit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after the company refused to sign an agreed revised budget of $54 million for shooting in Los Angeles, once a $49 million shoot on location in China had been abandoned.
- Red Corner was shot in Los Angeles with elaborate sets and CGI built from 3,500 still shots and two minutes of footage from China, and several Beijing actors were brought to the United States on visas for filming to give it verisimilitude.
- Richard Gere said his political activism over Tibet and his friendship with the Dalai Lama disrupted his film career and affected the financing, production and distribution of films he was connected with.
