In 1997, Richard Gere made a movie that would, more than a decade later, kill his career as an above-the-line star.
The film was Red Corner, an MGM drama about an American broadcast executive trapped in China’s Kafka-esque and punishing legal system. Gere’s character becomes a one-man rebuke to China’s Communist Party rule, his case a referendum on the sense of justice and Western thought it keeps from its people.
