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06/24/06
Beyond Rangoon (1995)
40 %
Reviews Counted: 30 Fresh: 12 Rotten:18 Average Rating: 5.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Synopsis: Director John Boorman's film, inspired by the crackdown of the Burmese military during the late 1980s, stars Patricia Arquette as Laura Bowman, an American doctor. After the violent death of her husband and child, Laura joins her sister, Andy (Frances McDormand), on a tour of Southeast... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Patricia Arquette, Adele Lutz, Frances McDormand, Spalding Gray
Director: John Boorman
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Top Critic
Do artists, and those who style themselves as artists, have the right to lie to further their visions?
11/25/07
About an American doctor in Burma who discovers the wild woman inside as she squares off against incredible physical and mental challenges.
08/28/02
This is a perennial favorite because of the scenery (it's set in Burma, shot in Malaysia), because of the strong heroine, and because of the mix of politics and adventure.
08/21/02
In attempting to make its politics palatable as entertainment, the film has grafted them onto a boatload of Hollywood implausibilities whose excesses cripple believability.
08/15/02
Top Critic
Arquette seems out of place, but there's enough quality here to warrant a fair shot.
07/26/02
In place of the backstory on Laura Bowman we need to understand why this woman undertakes her dangerous odyssey, the script races forward with action sequences better suited to co-writer Alex Lasker's earlier Firefox.
06/05/02
As an exercise in art, or even polemics, Beyond Rangoon is beyond redemption, but still works its occasional magic with extraordinary flair.
04/12/02
Yet one more film -- that defines Third World political unrest through its effect on a white liberal.
05/12/01
It's as if a civil war had been concocted just to take Laura (Patricia Arquette) outside of her not-unjustified misery.
01/01/00
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