Stars: Richard Gere, Bai Ling, Bradley Whitford, Byron Mann, Peter Donat, Robert Stanton, James Hong, Richard Venture, Tsai Chin, Tzi Ma, Ulrich Matschoss, Jessey Meng, Roger Yuan

Director: Jon Avnet

Summary: A businessman on the verge of signing a lucrative deal with the Chinese, spends the night with a beautiful woman. When she is found dead he is charged with her murder.

A high-powered American attorney (Richard Gere) finds the rules of order are different in a Chinese courtroom when he is arrested and falsely accused of murdering a young model. Discovering that the rule of thumb is guilty before proven innocent, he realises that he must convince his court-appointed attorney (Bai Ling, in a quietly powerful role) that he is blameless before he can even begin to convince the court.

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Using a faulty thriller for his soapbox as an outspoken critic of China, a devout follower of the Dalai Lama, and an influential supporter of Tibetan freedom, Richard Gere resorts to the equivalent of propagandistic drama to deliver a heavy-handed message. In other words, Red Cornerrelies on a dubious strategy to promote political awareness, but director Jon Avnet appeals to the viewer's outrage with such effective urgency that you're likely to forget you're being shamelessly manipulated. Gere plays a downtrodden TV executive who sells syndicated shows on the global market, and during a business trip to China he finds himself framed for the murder of the sexy daughter of a high Chinese official. Once trapped in a legal system in which his innocence will be all but impossible to prove, Gere must rely on a Chinese-appointed lawyer (played by Bai Ling) who first advises him to plead guilty but gradually grows convinced of foul play. Barely attempting to hide its agenda, Red Cornereffectively sets the stage for abundant anti-Chinese sentiment, and to be sure, the movie gains powerful momentum with its tale of justice gone awry. It's a serious-minded, high-intensity courtroom drama with noble intentions, but one wonder if it has to be so conspicuously lacking in subtlety. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	1.85 Wide Screen, 16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Feature Length Commentary, US Theatrical Trailer, 8 Page Booklet, Production Notes, Interactive Menus, Chapter Search
Subtitles:	Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
Year:	1997
Release Date:	February 1, 2000
Runtime:	117 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	15891 D V D
Keywords:	Corner, Red, General, Mystery, Wide, Screen, Drama, Closed Captioned, Whodunnit
Genre:	Drama