Beyond Rangoon

Beyond Rangoon

6.5IMDb Score
Released:1995-08-25
Duration:100 min
Director:John Boorman
Actors:Patricia Arquette, U Aung Ko, Frances McDormand, Spalding Gray, Tiara Jacquelina
Production:Castle Rock Entertainment, Pleskow/Spikings Productions

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.

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