Beyond Rangoon

Beyond Rangoon

Truth has a witness

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Release Date

8/25/1995

Runtime

100 mins

Overview

Dr. Laura Bowman is a young widow who's unwittingly drawn into political turmoil while vacationing in Burma in the late 1980s. Bowman initially left San Francisco with her sister in an attempt to escape painful memories of her husband and son's violent deaths. But her fight to escape to Thailand could prove just as harrowing.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$23,000,000

Revenue

$14,700,000

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A woman fleeing personal tragedy becomes entangled in Burma's political crisis, forcing her to confront both external danger and the ghosts she came to escape. The film moves between intimate grief and the larger horrors of authoritarian oppression.

Mood

TenseMelancholicDefiant

Themes

SurvivalGriefJusticeFreedom

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Steady

Look

NaturalisticHandheld

Structure

Linear

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Graphic violence

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