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Rosalind Chao and Chris Cooper in Thousand Pieces of Gold

Review: Thousand Pieces of Gold

Leave a Comment / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / April 27, 2020 / Anne Makepeace, Beth Broderick, Chris Cooper, Dennis Dun, Kenji Yamamoto, Michael Paul Chan, Nancy Kelly, Rosalind Chao, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Thousand Pieces of Gold, Women Directors

Thousand Pieces of Gold, newly restored in 4K and re-released after 30 years, is a wild west romance about Chinese immigration. It was directed by Nancy Kelly adapted from a fact based novel by Ruthanne Lum McCunn. Anne Makepeace wrote the screenplay. Pretty dang good women-cred for 1990!