Domestic Film: Thousand Pieces of Gold
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022 @ 1:30 PM
Based on a true story, Thousand Pieces of Gold is about a young girl (Rosalind Chao) in 1880’s China who is sold into marriage by her father. Rather than becoming a bride, she is sold again in a slave market, is put on a ship bound for America, and ends up in an Idaho gold-mining town, the property of a saloon owner (Chris Cooper). Refusing to become a prostitute like the other women in the saloon, she ultimately finds her own way in this strange new country, and even manages to find true love. (1990, cc, 106 minutes.)