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  • Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Yun-Fat Chow
  • Summary: Based on real events, The Children of Huang Shi is a sweeping but intimate story set against war-torn China in the 1930's. The film centers on a young English journalist, an American nurse and the leader of a Chinese partisan group who meet in desperate and unexpected circumstances. Together they rescue 60 orphaned children, leading them on an extraordinary journey across hundreds of miles of treacherous terrain, through snow-covered mountains and an unforgiving desert. Along the way they discover the true meaning of love, responsibility and courage. (Sony Picture Classics) Expand
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  1. It radiates intelligence. Of how many historical epics can that be said these days?
  2. What Spottiswoode lacks in subtlety and restraint, he balances with a heartfelt passion for the material.
  3. Full of incident but nearly devoid of dramatic tension, The Children of Huang Shi is a based-on-fact saga that has lost much of its power on the long road to the screen.

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