The Rocket

Name: The Rocket
Genre: Drama
Released: January 10, 2014
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Alice Keohavong, Bunsri Yindi, Loungnam Kaosainam, Sitthiphon Disamoe, Sumrit Warin

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: January 10, 2014 | Not Rated

Starring: Alice Keohavong, Bunsri Yindi, Loungnam Kaosainam, Sitthiphon Disamoe, Sumrit Warin, Suthep Po-ngam

Summary: A boy who is believed to bring bad luck to everyone around him leads his family and two new friends through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey through a land scarred by the legacy of war, to prove he's not bad luck he builds a giant rocket to enter the most exciting and dangerous competition of the year: the Rocket Festival.

Director: Kim Mordaunt

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 96 min

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The Playlist Rodrigo Perez

Dec 23, 2013

Mordaunt’s eye indicates a thoughtful filmmaker able to listen to the winds of what a movie needs. Effortlessly natural, his workmanlike craft carries the capacity to keep an ear open to happenstance. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

Jan 9, 2014

Watching Ahlo mix his explosives is like watching a Cordon Bleu chef whipping up a stupendous soufflé.

Film.com Jordan Hoffman

Dec 23, 2013

The kid performances are impressive and the subtext of a region still shaking off the effects of a long-ended war gives seed to some much needed discussion. Read full review

Nick McCarthy

Jan 10, 2014

The particulars of Laos's historical conflicts are sometimes only obliquely confronted, but the torrid past of covered-up wars palpably echoes through the scarred yet majestic landscapes. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Jan 16, 2014

Australian writer-director Kim Mordaunt doesn't always succeed at balancing the sentimental, the political and the ethnographic, but at its strongest the story is a seamless melding of history's dark undertow and a child's indefatigable optimism. Read full review

Mark Jenkins

Jan 10, 2014

Yes, The Rocket is a sports movie, with an outcome that's easily foreseen. The cultural specifics of this Laos-set tale, however, are far less predictable. Read full review

Noah Berlatsky

Jan 9, 2014

The Rocket is a well-constructed delivery system for sparkly cheer, but it lacks a more substantial payload. Read full review

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StevieB212

Jan 12, 2014

Don't be misled by the trailers about a boy that brings bad luck, which is a cheap version of this deep, moving story, set in great native beauty, Laos. This film brings great dignity to the poor of the world. The story is carefully laid into the history of Laos: people who are picking upDon't be misled by the trailers about a boy that brings bad luck, which is a cheap version of this deep, moving story, set in great native beauty, Laos. This film brings great dignity to the poor of the world. The story is carefully laid into the history of Laos: people who are picking up bombs dropped by Americans, the background of their governing communists, and as a country that sells electricity to their neighbors; but all of this is only in the background. The story is good, gripping, moving, with dramatic turns to move it from act to act. The native actors, and in particular the children, are all perfect. The children demonstrate joy in the midst of being dirty poor. This film truly soars.… Expand

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haukyn

Mar 11, 2014

Charming film set in Laos, the story of a young boy who thinks (because he was born a twin and village tradition suggests he may be evil) he’s trouble, especially after – a moment that made me jump out of the seat! – and the trials & tribulations he, and his family, face, once they’reCharming film set in Laos, the story of a young boy who thinks (because he was born a twin and village tradition suggests he may be evil) he’s trouble, especially after – a moment that made me jump out of the seat! – and the trials & tribulations he, and his family, face, once they’re dispossessed from their land for a dam project. That condemnation could have been stronger, but it's good to see current politics referenced as well as the appalling legacy of the illegal war waged by the US in Laos. Anyway, all ends well, as we knew it would, once he enters a rocket competition in a nearby town. Boom! Very nice.… Expand

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Jan 29, 2015

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