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Red Corner

...Gere set himself up by appearing in this film; as an outspoken critic of China and follower of the Dalai Lama, he has a case to plead.

Red Corner is at its most effective whenever the Chinese judicial system comes under the spotlight. And, if the film-makers' allegedly accurate representation is anything to go by, it's a pretty terrifying one.

Jack Moore (Gere) is a corporate lawyer, in China to peddle American TV to the world's single-biggest untapped market. But Moore makes the mistake of scoring some exotic bootie in the form of HongLing...