The Golden Child (1986)
Director:
Michael Ritchie
Tagline:
« Eddie Murphy Is The Chosen One. »
Actors:
The Golden Child
Chandler Jarrell
Sardo Numspa
Kee Nang
The Old Goupa
Rating:
(63’826 votes)
(63’826 votes)
Quotes:
« Kee Nang: Gompa, I have ruined myself with the American. He is a fool.
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« The Old Man: But he's brave.
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« Kee Nang: He is irresponsible.
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« The Old Man: But he's generous.
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« Kee Nang: He thinks of nothing but protecting his own feelings.
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« The Old Man: But if you touch his heart, there's nothing he wouldn't do for you.
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« Kee Nang: He believes in nothing.
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« The Old Man: Yet, still he does what is right.
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« Kee Nang: He is a callous, thoughtless, undisciplined fool.
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« The Old Man: [chuckles] Yes. I, too, like him very much. It's very hard not to.
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« Chandler Jarrell: Only a man whose heart is pure can wield the knife, and only a man whose ass is narrow can get down these steps. And if mine's is such an ass, then I shall have it.
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« Chandler Jarrell: So, tell me about this dream.
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« Kee Nang: Some part's real, some part's dream.
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« Chandler Jarrell: So this scar on my arm's real.
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« Kee Nang: Right.
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« Chandler Jarrell: What about Numsie?
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« Kee Nang: Numspaa, Sardo Numspaa.
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« Chandler Jarrell: Yeah.
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« Kee Nang: He's very real.
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« Chandler Jarrell: You know, you were there, and you said some things that seemed pretty real…
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« Kee Nang: That part was dream!
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« Chandler Jarrell: I was just checking.
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Trailer:
Official Trailer
Runtime:94 minutes
Plots:
A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child whom dark forces want to eliminate.
Eddie Murphy plays a detective with a speciality of finding lost children. He is told he is the ‘Chosen one’ who will find and protect the Golden Child, a Bhuddist mystic who was kidnapped by an evil sorcerer. Murphy disbelieves the mysticism but finds more and more evidence of demon worship as he investigates.
In an unknown location in Tibet, a young boy with mystical abilities, the Golden Child, receives badges of honor and demonstrates his power by reviving a dead bird, which is to become a constant companion. However, a band of villains led by a mysterious man breaks into the hidden temple, slaughters the monks and takes the boy away. Some time afterwards, a young woman named Kee Nang watches a Los Angeles TV show in which Chandler Jarrell, a social worker who is confronted by a young Asian woman who tells him that he is the Chosen One destined to save The Golden Child, the savior of all mankind, from the clutches of the evil demon Sardo Numspa, who won’t rest until he sees to it that the boy is in his clutches. But Jarrell disbelieves the mysticism but he finds more and more evidence of demon worship as he starts investigating.
