| Natural Causes | |
| Director: | James Becket |
| Producer: | Jake Raymond Needham |
| Music: | Nathan Wang |
| Cinematography: | Denis Maloney |
| Editing: | Rick Fields |
| Studio: | Pacific Rim Productions |
| Distributor: | Columbia TriStar Home Video |
| Runtime: | 90 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Natural Causes is a 1994 American political action thriller film directed by James Becket and written and produced by Jake Raymond Needham.[1] [2] It stars Janis Paige, Ken Wisan, Joke Tachalom, Popin Kukiatto, Tim Thomerson, Linda Purl, Kenneth Brady, Somsak Pansene, Mathee Sirijantra, and Robert Radford as former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.[1] [2]
A plot involving Vietnamese refugees is linked to the death of an American's mother in Bangkok.
Natural Causes was shown at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on March 5, 1994. It was released direct-to-video in the United States by Columbia TriStar Home Video on November 7, 1995.[3] [4]
Emanuel Levy, of Variety states in his review: "Set in Bangkok, Natural Causes is a messy, incoherent political thriller about a young American woman who finds herself in the midst of a plot to assassinate former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Pic makes good use of Bangkok's colorful scenery, but its roguish, muddled plot and maladroit, uninvolving direction should take it straight to video domestically, with some possibilities for theatrical release offshore."[5]