Golden Gate (film)

Golden Gate
Theatrical Poster
Directed by	John Madden
Written by	David Henry Hwang
Starring	Matt Dillon Joan Chen Bruno Kirby
Music by	Elliot Goldenthal
Edited by	Sean Barton
Distributed by	The Samuel Goldwyn Company American Playhouse Theatrical Films
Release dates	January 28, 1994 (1994-01-28)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$395,105 (USA)

Golden Gate is a 1994 film produced by American Playhouse. Set in San Francisco, California, it is the story of a 1950s G-Man (played by Matt Dillon) who gets involved with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Communist prosecutions, which leads him to become involved with a young Chinese American woman (played by Joan Chen), whose father he helped to put in prison. The film also features Bruno Kirby and Tzi Ma. The film is directed by John Madden and written by Asian American dramatist David Henry Hwang.

The film is available on videocassette and DVD.^[1]

Cast

Filmed between December 7, 1992 and February 9, 1993 in San Francisco with additional scenes at UC Berkeley.

Works by David Henry Hwang

Full-length plays	FOB (1980) Family Devotions (1981) Rich Relations (1986) M. Butterfly (1988) Face Value (1993) Golden Child (1996) Peer Gynt (1998, with Stephan Muller; from Ibsen) Tibet Through the Red Box (2004, from Sis) Yellow Face (2007) Chinglish (2011)

Short plays	The Dance and the Railroad (1981) The House of Sleeping Beauties (1983, from Kawabata) The Sound of a Voice (1983) As the Crow Flies (1986) Bondage (1992) Trying to Find Chinatown (1996) Bang Kok (1996) Merchandising (1999) Jade Flowerpots and Bound Feet (2001) The Great Helmsman (2007) A Very DNA Reunion (2010)

Film/television	Blind Alleys (1985, with Kimball) M. Butterfly (1993) Golden Gate (1994) The Lost Empire (2001) Possession (2002, with Jones and LaBute, from Byatt)

Music theatre	1000 Airplanes on the Roof (1988, with Glass and Sirlin) The Voyage (1992, with Glass) The Silver River (1997, with Sheng) Aida (2000, with Woolverton & Falls, John and Rice, from Verdi) Flower Drum Song (2001, with Rodgers and Hammerstein, from Fields, Hammerstein, and Lee) Ainadamar (2003, with Golijov) The Sound of a Voice (2003, with Glass) Tarzan (2006, with Collins, from Burroughs) Alice in Wonderland (2007, with Chin, from Carroll) The Fly (2008, with Shore)

Films directed by John Madden

Ethan Frome (1993) Golden Gate (1994) Mrs Brown (1997) Shakespeare in Love (1998) Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) Proof (2005) Killshot (2008) The Debt (2010) The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015) Miss Sloane (2016)

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