- Studio: First Independent Pictures
- Release Date: Apr 11, 2008
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First-time filmmaker Shi-Zheng Chen shows little aptitude for accurately transcribing the textures of human interaction; there's not a single credible performance here, not excluding Meryl Streep as a faculty Sinophile, doing that thing where she grinds every line through a gauntlet of tremulous inflections.
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If only it weren't based on a true story. It might have been a good movie.