Movie
Red Corner
Overview
An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
Details
- Release date
- 1997-10-30
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Avnet/Kerner Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Richard Gere as Jack Moore
- Bai Ling as Shen Yuelin
- Bradley Whitford as Bob Ghery
- Byron Mann as Lin Dan
- Peter Donat as David McAndrews
- Robert Stanton as Ed Pratt
- Tsai Chin as Chairman Xu
- James Hong as Lin Shou
- Tzi Ma as Li Cheng
- Ulrich Matschoss as Gerhardt Hoffman
- Richard Venture as Ambassador Reed
- Jessey Meng as Hong Ling
Crew
- Jon Avnet - Director
- Robert King - Screenplay
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