Where to watch The Golden Child in the United States
The Golden Child (1986) is available on Kanopy with a participating library card. Also available to rent on Apple TV+.
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You can watch The Golden Child (1986) on Kanopy with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
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."
Eddie Murphy trades his usual street-smart persona for a frantic, supernatural scavenger hunt across mystical landscapes. This genre mashup swaps traditional martial arts tropes for slapstick energy and strange, cult-classic mysticism.
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Michael Ritchie
Cast
Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance, Charlotte Lewis, J.L. Reate, Victor Wong, Randall 'Tex' Cobb, James Hong, Shakti Chen, Tau Logo, Masanori Toguchi
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The Golden Child
You can watch The Golden Child (1986) on Kanopy with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
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5.9/10
RT Critics
22%
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Director
Michael Ritchie
Cast
Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance, Charlotte Lewis, J.L. Reate, Victor Wong, Randall 'Tex' Cobb, James Hong, Shakti Chen, Tau Logo, Masanori Toguchi
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