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Shanghai Dreams

Shanghai Dreams

2005, Movie, 2h 3min

In 1980s China, the country is beginning to reform and workers who had been moved with their families to the provinces in the 60s now long to return to Shanghai. For one displaced family a conflict arises when their 19-year-old daughter finds love with a local boy, threatening their chance of a return to the city.

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Critic David Parkinson

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...[a] slow-burning tale of domestic discord, set in the remote southern Chinese province of Guizhou in the early 1980s.

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