The read
Audiences rate it 24 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye surgeon in America. When tasked with restoring the sight of an orphan in India, who was blinded by her stepmother, Wang must confront the trauma of living through the violent uprising in his youth, the Cultural Revolution.
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes74%
Metacritic42/100
Audiences rate it 24 points higher than critics do.
43 audience votes
Key crew
- Andrew HyattDirector
- Andrew HyattWriter
- John DuiganWriter
- Buzz McLaughlinWriter
- Sean Philip JohnsonOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Terry ChenMing Wang
- Greg KinnearMisha Bartnovsky
- Fionnula FlanaganSister Marie
- Wai Ching HoAlian
- Raymond MaZhensheng
- Ben WangYoung Ming
- Jayden Tianyi ZhangYoung Ming
- Donald HengYoung Zhensheng
- Jennifer Juniper AngeliLynn Hendrich
- Natalie SkyeJune Bartnovsky
- Danni WangAnle
- Natasha MumbaRuth Tarik
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Themes
china1970scultural revolutionbased on true storyeye specialistblindnessnashville, tennesseecommunismtraumatic childhood1960scommunist chinaacid burning