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Golden Gate (1994)

Golden Gate poster
Directed by
John Madden
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 27m
Rated
R
Rating
4.4 of 10 from 17 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A 1950s FBI agent gets involved in Communist investigations in San Francisco. He falls for a Chinese American woman whose father he helped to send to prison.

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What happens

Golden Gate is a 1994 American drama film produced by American Playhouse. Set in San Francisco, California, it tells the story of a 1950s G-Man (played by Matt Dillon) who ends up in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Communist prosecutions, which leads him to become involved with a young Chinese American woman (played by Joan Chen) whose father he helped to put in prison. The film also features Bruno Kirby and Tzi Ma. The film is directed by John Madden and written by Asian American dramatist David Henry Hwang. The film is available on videocassette and DVD. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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