- Summary: Dean Randall has sponsored young Chinese orphan Mei Mei for ten years. At 16, she arrives in Sydney to attend the Australian Choir Festival and looks up her sponsor changing their lives forever.
- Director: Pauline Chan
- Genre(s): Drama, Music
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 9
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Mixed: 4 out of 9
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Negative: 4 out of 9
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80[A] sweet if not very credible film.
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50The dependable Australian actor Guy Pearce is always welcome, even in a well-meaning dud like 33 Postcards.
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50The main problem is the criminal subplot, full of Aussie villains snarling “mate” at one another and landing bloodless punches on Dean. 33 Postcards is what happens when someone grafts a prison angle onto “Pollyanna” — the tough guys just get in the way.
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40Equal parts thriller and feel-good inspirational tale, 33 Postcards succeeds mainly in provoking the viewer’s sense of disbelief.
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30The climactic collision of agendas is even more contrived than everything leading to it.
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20There’s no explaining the presence of Guy Pearce in Pauline Chan’s sappy, atonal family drama. But it’s easy enough to understand why he looks so uncomfortable throughout.
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0Pauline Chan's film is a jumbled mixture of redemptive uplift and genre hijinks.
