Red Corner

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Red Corner

Directed by	Jon Avnet
Produced by	Jon Avnet Jordan Kerner Charles Mulvehill Rosalie Swedlin
Written by	Robert King
Starring	Richard Gere Bai Ling Bradley Whitford
Music by	Thomas Newman
Cinematography	Karl Walter Lindenlaub
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	1997
Running time	122 min.
IMDb profile

Red Corner is a movie produced in 1997. It tells the story of a wealthy American businessman named Jack Moore (played by Richard Gere) working in China and attempting to put together a satellite communications deal as part of a joint venture with the Chinese government. Before the deal goes through, he is framed for the murder of a powerful Chinese general's daughter, and the satellite contract is awarded to Moore's competitor. Moore's court appointed lawyer (played by Bai Ling) initially does not believe his pleas of innocence, but the pair gradually unearth further evidence that not only vindicates Moore, but also implicates powerful figures within the Chinese Central government administration and exposes high levels of conspiracy and corruption.

Directed by Jon Avnet and written by Robert King.

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This film is banned in China for political reasons.^[1] However, this film (named 紅色角落 in Chinese) is rated parental guidance category ("PG", 輔導級(輔)) but not banned in Taiwan, Republic of China.^[2]
The film was shot in the USA; however, for the large landscape shots of Beijing, such as the first shot after the opening credits, computer animation was used to splice the few minutes of footage that was shot in China with close ups of the lead actors.
According to AMC's introduction when showing the film, the execution scenes were real, smuggled out of China by defectors.^{[citation needed]}