The Golden Child

A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child that dark forces want to eliminate.

• Director:Michael Ritchie
• Genre:Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Mystery
• Runtime:94 minutes

Cast

J.L. Reate : The Golden Child
Eddie Murphy : Chandler Jarrell
Charles Dance : Sardo Numspa
Charlotte Lewis : Kee Nang
Victor Wong : The Old Man

In an unknown location in Tibet, a young boy with mystical abilities, the Golden Child, receives badges of station 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 (Sardo Numspa) 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 engages in finding missing children, appears and tries to present his latest case (a missing girl named Cheryll Mosley) over the host’s prattling. She seeks him out the next day and openly informs him of the kidnapping of the Golden Child and that he is the ‘Chosen One’ who would recover it from the hands of evil. Jovial and worldly as he considers himself, Chandler does not take this seriously, even after the appearance of the astral form of the Child and his bird familiar following Chandler everywhere he goes, but he is instantly taken with Kee Nang and constantly tries to flirt with her.

Soon Cheryll Mosley is found, dead from loss of blood, near an abandoned house smeared with Tibetaian graffiti and a pot full of blood-soaked oatmeal. Kee Nang reveals to him that this house was a holding place for the Child and brings Chandler in contact with Doctor Hong, a mystic expert, and Kala (a creature half dragon, half human woman, who remains hidden behind a screen). Together they track down a motorcycle gang named the Yellow Dragons, which Cheryll had joined, and then the Chinese restaurant owner Tommy Tong, a henchman of Numspa, to whom Cheryll had been ‘sold’ for her blood, which was to be used to make the Child vulnerable to earthly harm; Tong, however, is killed by Numspa as a potential traitor. Still not taking the case too seriously, Chandler is quickly convinced when Numspa — whom Chandler begins to continuously call “Numsy” — draws him into a controlled dream, where he leaves a burn mark on Chandler’s arm. He also presents his demands: the Ajanti Dagger (a mystic weapon which is capable of killing the Golden Child) in exchange for the boy. Read more

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