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Beyond Rangoon
🎬 Movie

Beyond Rangoon

1995 · 100 min Drama Thriller
6.6 / 10 · TMDB

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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🎬 MovieFinder's Take

This is quietly operating cinema. No big events, no crisis turns — just people and how they live through what happens to them.

Strengths: atmosphere, actors, accuracy of detail. Weaknesses: the pace isn't for everyone, the ending may feel unresolved.

For people who watch films for feeling, not entertainment.

Director: John Boorman

— MovieFinder Editorial

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Viewing atmosphere: An evening when your mind is at peace. With someone you can sit in silence with after. Wine or tea.

🎭 Cast

Patricia Arquette

Patricia Arquette

Laura Bowman

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U Aung Ko

U Aung Ko

Frances McDormand

Frances McDormand

Andy Bowman

Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray

Jeremy Watt

Tiara Jacquelina

Tiara Jacquelina

San San, Hotel Desk Clerk

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Ann Howard

Australian Doctor

Victor Slezak

Victor Slezak

Mr. Scott

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Ye Myint

Zaw Win

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Cho Cho Myint

Zabai

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Michael Pickells

Nick Bowman

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