Green Dragon (2001)
A tale about Vietnamese refugees sent to an orientation camp on the Camp Pendleton Marine Base in California, 'Green Dragon' focuses on a young boy and his sister. Set in 1975, the film chronicles the stories told to the two children by other refugees in the camp and of Tai Tran, who dares to introduce himself to Sergeant Jim Lance. In developing a relationship with Lance, Tran is able to improve
- Date of release
- 2001-05-17
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (33)
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Timothy Linh Bui
Casting
- Patrick Swayze — Gunnery Sergeant Jim Lance
- Forest Whitaker — Addie
- Đơn Dương — Tai Tran
- Hiep Thi Le — Thuy Hoa
- Billinjer C. Tran — Duc (as Billinjer Tran)
- Kathleen Luong — Second Wife
- Phuoc Quan Nguyen — Loi
- Long Nguyen — Quang Hai
- Catherine Ai — Hien
- Kieu Chinh — Kieu
- Elyse Dinh — Red Cross Volunteer
- Phong Atwood Vo — Man on Crutches (as Phong Vo)
Interesting facts
Green Dragon is a 2001 American war drama film directed by Timothy Linh Bui and starring Patrick Swayze, Forest Whitaker and Duong Don.
Production
The story was written by Bui's younger brother Tony Bui. Both of the brothers came to the United States with their family in 1975, as refugees from Vietnam.
The setting of the film is Camp Pendleton in Southern California, where the movie was also filmed.
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