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[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Set in a mining town in the 1880s, THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD is based on the classic novel by Ruthanne Lum McCunn with a screenplay by award-winning filmmaker Anne Makepeace (Tribal Justice). Upon its release in 1990, the film won immediate acclaim for its portrayal of the real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a young Chinese woman whose desperately poor parents sell her into slavery. She is trafficked to a nefarious saloonkeeper in Idaho's gold country. Eventually Charlie (Chris Cooper), a man of different ilk, wins her in a poker game and slowly gains her trust. Way ahead of its time, the film resonates even more powerfully today in the era of #MeToo. Nancy Kelly became a victim of prejudice against women directors within the American film industry and was never offered another movie to direct in spite of extraordinary reviews from critics, some of whom compared her talent to that of John Ford
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Chris Cooper, Dennis Dun, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Michael Paul Chan, Rosalind Chao, Will Oldham
Originally produced by Kino Lorber in 1990
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English