<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $141.9 million </Td> </Tr> <P> The Foreigner is a 2017 action thriller film directed by Martin Campbell and written by David Marconi, based on the 1992 novel The Chinaman by Stephen Leather . The British - Chinese co-production stars Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan, Michael McElhatton, Liu Tao, Charlie Murphy, Orla Brady and Katie Leung, and follows a businessman who seeks revenge for the death of his daughter . </P> <P> The Foreigner was released in China on 30 September 2017, in the United States on 13 October 2017 and in the United Kingdom in December 2017 on Netflix . It grossed $141 million worldwide and received mixed reviews, although critics praised the against the type performances of Chan and Brosnan . </P> <P> Ngoc Minh Quan, a Chinese Nuang chef, runs a Chinese restaurant in London . When his teenage daughter Fan is killed in a clothing store bombing claimed by a group calling themselves the "Authentic IRA" (a parallel to the Real IRA), a distraught Quan seeks revenge . He first attempts to bribe Scotland Yard officer Richard Bromley for the names of the bombers, but Bromley refuses to accept the bribe nor reveal any information . Quan next focuses on the Northern Ireland deputy First Minister Liam Hennessy, who speaks publicly about his status as a former UDI (read: IRA) leader while condemning the bombing . Keyi Lam, Quan's co-worker and personal friend, attempts to console and convince him to move on, but he refuses to be swayed and eventually leaves for Belfast to meet Hennessy . Hennessy claims to have no knowledge of the bombing or its perpetrators, but Quan does not believe him . His queries escalate until he becomes fixated on Hennessy, setting off a homemade bomb in his office and threatening more unless he gets the bombers' names . </P>

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