Red Corner

Name: Red Corner
Director: Jon Avnet
Released: 1997-01-01

1997 film directed by Jon Avnet

FilmfilmQ286132

Released: 1997
, January 22, 1998
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Director: Jon Avnet
Screenwriter: Robert King
Producer: Jon Avnet
Cast: Richard Gere
, Bai Ling
, Bradley Whitford
, Tsai Chin
+8 more
Runtime: 117 min
Genre: trial film
, mystery film
, crime film
+1 more
Country of origin: United States

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Red Corner is a 1997 American mystery thriller film directed by Jon Avnet, and starring Richard Gere, Bai Ling and Bradley Whitford. Written by Robert King, the film is about an American businessman in China who ends up wrongfully on trial for murder. His only hope of exoneration and freedom is a female defense lawyer from the country. The film received the 1997 National Board of Review Freedom of Expression Award and the NBR Award for Breakthrough Female Performance. Ling also won the San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress.

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Director of photography: Karl Walter Lindenlaub
Film editor: Peter E. Berger
Title: Red Corner
Color: color
FSK film rating: FSK 12
Derivative work: Dhaam Dhoom
Narrative location: Beijing
Medierådet rating: For ages 15 and up
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1.Stated in Danish Film Database
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CNC film rating (France): no age restriction
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Distribution format: video on demand
Review score: 27%(March 25, 2025) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes · number of reviews/ratings: 22 critic review
5.1/10(October 5, 2021) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes
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1.Stated in Rotten Tomatoes“Red Corner”Retrieved 2021-10-05
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Kijkwijzer rating: 12 content descriptor: Violence, Coarse language
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1.kijkwijzer.nl/films/red-corner/Retrieved 2025-06-16
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