The Golden Child
Eddie Murphy is the chosen one.
After a Tibetan boy, the mystical Golden Child, is kidnapped by the evil Sardo Numspa, humankind's fate hangs in the balance.On the other side of the world in Los Angeles, the priestess Kee Nang seeks the Chosen One, who will save the boy from death.
- Director
- Michael Ritchie
- Worldwide
- $80M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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After a Tibetan boy, the mystical Golden Child, is kidnapped by the evil Sardo Numspa, humankind's fate hangs in the balance. On the other side of the world in Los Angeles, the priestess Kee Nang seeks the Chosen One, who will save the boy from death. When Nang sees social worker Chandler Jarrell on television discussing his ability to find missing children, she solicits his expertise, despite his skepticism over being "chosen."
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
The Golden Child returned 3.2× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $25M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $80M
- Release date
- Dec 12, 1986
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- Tibetan, English
- Country
- United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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