The read
It runs a compact 1h 23m.
Synopsis
The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However, Yilan is not interested. She tries keeping an emotional distance but when this finally fails she begins physically avoiding her father. He confronts her about an affair with a married Russian man and she, in turn, lets loose about all the gossip she'd heard as a young girl about his alleged affair with a female colleague back in China.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes79%
Metacritic64/100
27 audience votes
Key crew
- Wayne WangDirector
- Lesley BarberOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Henry OMr. Shi
- Yu FeihongYilan
- Vida GhahremaniMadame
- Pasha D. LychnikoffBoris
- Jared WagnerAirport Greeter
- Megan AlbertusForensics Girl
- Wes DeitrickAntique Owner
- Ryan SansonPlane Passenger
- Patrick TreadwayHomeless Man
- Angela Dierdorff PetroMaggie
- Tracy SchornickTroy
- Erick HollenbaughElder Reilly
Stills
Themes
daughterchinapersiaretireedivorce