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David Epstein (writer)
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18 October 1983 (USA)
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A man arrives in China to search for his son, whom he hasn't seen in many years. A female American Embassy employee...
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How did Ali McGraw ever get to be an "actor"?
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(Credited cast) | George C. Scott | ... | Mr. Allen |
 | Ali MacGraw | ... | Rose |
 | Michael Biehn | ... | Daniel Allen |
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 | James Hong | ... | Prof. Chen |
| Denis Lill | ... | Supt. George |
| David Snell | ... | Doug Kornfeld |
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She is such a terrible presence(can't call her an actor), no skills or talent at all, and she ruins any film she is in other than some early ones that traded off her Irish good looks when she was a gorgeous young girl. Forced, self-conscious, totally unnatural, no emotional range at all, and so in contrast to the great George C. Scott, she was a total embarrassment. And, her lame attempts to speak Chinese were out-loud laughable. I guess they got a famous name cheap here, as her declining looks were very evident. One upside.....her looks are fast getting closer to her "talent" and one day they will be the same, if she ever works again after this.
The film story was about a rich American industrialist seeking his long lost idealistic son in China, and the confusing, conflicting and "inscrutable" things he went through to finally see what happened to him. McGraw was his paid, Chinese-speaking, American guide at first but lo and behold, this is Hollywood mind you, she became something else entirely by film's end, no matter how unlikely it all was.
A mediocre film at best, as Scott could walk by and you would still know he is one of the greats, but McGraw ruined it for being anything more than a 2 hour diversion.