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Thousand Pieces of Gold is a american film of genre Drama directed by Nancy Kelly released in USA on 26 april 1991 with Chris Cooper
Thousand Pieces of Gold (1991)
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Add to a movie listThousand Pieces of Gold is a 1991 film starring Rosalind Chao, Chris Cooper, Dennis Dun and Michael Paul Chan, and is directed by Nancy Kelly. The film is based on a novel of the same name.
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Lalu (Rosalind Chao) is a young and fluently smart Chinese woman who is sold by her impoverished family and transported against her will to the American Old West, shortly after the Civil War. Upon her arrival in California, she meets Jim (Dennis Dun), a Chinese "wife trader" who sells her to Hong King (Michael Paul Chan), a successful Chinese merchant who lives in a rural Idaho mining town. The two set off on the long journey to Idaho and eventually strike up a friendship along the way.Actors
Chris Cooper
(Charlie)
Rosalind Chao
(Lalu / Polly)
Jimmie F. Skaggs
(Jonas)
Michael Paul Chan
(Hong King)
Will Oldham
(Miles)
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